Skip to main content

Full text of "German Tribune Supplement , 1970, Germany, English"

See other formats 


THE GERMAN TRIBUNE 


3 February 1970 -No, ft 



BACK PAGE 


A four centuries long tradition 
of pint-pulling 







O bermogersheim near Wassertriidingen 
is a small Frankish village with an- 
cient farm buildings and narrow village 
streets. If it were not that modem farm 
machinery could be seen here and there a 
visitor mlgjit think that he had fallen 
upon a place where time stood still. 

“Where does Mrs Btckel live? " The old 
farmer quickly approaches the car full of 
curiosjty. “The woman from the 
brewery? It would be best to go back to 
Unterschwaningen. The last house on the 
right is where Mina lives.” 

The car arrives at the bumpy courtyard 
of the time-honoured property. In two 
seconds Minn Blckel is standing at the 
house door. She is a 70-year-old woman, 
slight, she Is wearing a black kerciilef over 
her grey hair, dark clothes, an apron and 
is a little embarrassed. She is tne oldest 
brewer in the Federal Republic. 

The Blckel family was awarded the 
right to brew beer on 22 April , 1646. 
Mina Blckel brews in a year as much as 
100 hectolitres. But she sells her produce 
only In her owii pub, a tradition that has 
always prevailed. The baer is stronger 
than that usually sold in pubs, 13 to 14 
percent proof. 


Mrs Blckel said: “If it is stronger I 
would be in trouble with the law, and I 
would also be in trouble if It were 
weaker.” 

When she serves up the stronger beer in 
her pub don't things get a little out of 
hand? Mrs Bicksl shakes her head in 
denial. “No, that is not how it is. When 
we Iiave had a few drinks here we always 
sing. We do a lot of singing here.” 

Since she was fifteen the owner of the 
pub has brewed beer In her small brewery. 
Her father was once very ill and he 
said to his daughter: “Now you will have 
to do the brewing. You can manage it 
can't you? ” 

And so things went for years. The 
young girl became a woman. What with 
her work in the pub and sitting beside her 
brewing vats Mina Blckel never got round 
to marrying. 

There are many regulars who come to 
her pub. The marksmen know what a 
treasure they have in their landlady. Only 
the most stout hearted of marksmen can 
tolerate such a set up as tills. In the pub a 
table is placed at an angle and the shots 
go through a narrow doorway into the 
landlady's bedroom and from there they 
passed through a liatch Into the fdtehen 
where the targets are set up on the wall. 
The bullets fly literally over the tops of 
the kettles and pots. 

It is even said that the landlady once 
went to bed and slept deeply while the 



Site (German Sfet 




ui 


A WEEKLY REVIEW OF THE GERMAN PRESS 


Hamburg, 10 February 1970 
Ninth Year - No. 409 ■ By air 


C 20725 0 




Willy Brandt revitalises 
Bonn -Paris entente 




Mina Biclcel, this country's oldest brewer 






shots were buzzing through her bedroom. 

At the moment Mina Bickel is consider- 
ing whether she should raise the price of 
beer. “I think I shall have to,” die said 
sadly. 

The French government owes her ex- 
actly 1J44 gulders. Tills is how the 
strange debt was run up: hi 1806 officers 
and troops of Napoleon's army stayed 
and ate for months at the Zur Sonne Inn 
in ObermOgershelm. Their bills are pre- 
served In a neat documont but the fine 
gentlemen never did pay, 

The French state has announced its 
readiness to pay the debts run up by its 
most famous emperor. Mina Blckel could 
put in a claim and others have already 
done so. 

(Hannovorscliu Presse, 9 January 1970) 


Auctioned inn 

H otel Zum Rlescn in Miltenbfiji 
the Main, which claims to bet 
oldest German inn still operating vil 
auctioned on 3 March this year. 2i 
Ricsen is mentioned In documents dab 
back to 141 1. 

Among the historic anecdotes conn 
ed with the inn there is ono that Saynk 
in 1590 when the inn was rebuilt I 
local magistrate presented the Innkeq 
with the trunks of one hundred oi 
since tlio inn find been the resting placti 
princes. 

The modern Zum Riesen has a resb 
rant and guests rooms with 20 bads. 

(SUddoutsclio Zeitung, 13 Juiiuaryir 


franffiirterjtllgemrine 


ZEITUNG FUR DEUTSCHLAND 


s top ten 


i ■ .. , . , 

When a newspaper ranks as one of the ten best in the world, both .... 

' Its coverage i iand its editorial contents assume international ' ■ ■ 

• significance. Twice the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has been 
named one of the teh best newspapers of the world. The first time, ! 
in 1063, by nrofesBors of the Journalism Department of Syracuse i 
University in New York. The second tlnje, in .1964, by the pro- • 
feasors of 26 Institutes |n the United States. , . 

, "Zeitung filr Deutschland* ("Newspaper for Germany") is a desig- - ■ 
; nation that reflects both the Frankfurter Allgemeine's underly 4 
lng purpose and; more literally, its circulation - which covers 
- West Berlin and the 1 Whole of the Federal Republic. In Addition' 

■ «■ to 140 editors and correspondents of jts own. tKe paper has 450 , j 


“stringers" reporting from all over Germany and hround the 
world. 280,000 coplea are printed daily, of which 210,000 go to 
subscribers. 20,000 are distributed abroad, and the balance is sold 
on newsstands. Every issue is read by at least four or five persons. 
Frankfurter Allgemelrie Zeitung is the paper of the business- 
man and the politician, and indeed of everyone who matters In 
th‘6 1 Federal Republic,; j 

. For anyone; wishing to penetrate the German market, the Frank- 
furter Allgemeine is a must. In a country of many famous nows- 
papers its authority, scope, and influence can be matched only at 
an International level. 




jk - -i • r«V% ✓ & 

■ ■ ! 1 i • -• •• ’ 

F ranco-Federal' - ■ Republic relations 1 . 

blossomed Iii r a ()6litkca) ' spring that 
was followed by a colder spbll In which : 
the buds of friendship were covered in 
hoarifrdst.f. .;ii * r ; . .. •■•• •• . : 

Hardly 1 had ikonrad Adenauer handed 
over to his'llmniodlote successor than; 
Charles dc Gaulle grimly referred to the I 
1'963 friendship pacH in 'terms 1, of roses 
and; young girls 'whose 1 beauty* quickly! 1 
fades. 1 • 1 i '*i • 

. FblloWing the 1 first contact with Llid- 
.wig Erhard in 1964, celebrated in both. 
Paris and Bohh as a- fresh 1 start; relations 
began that same autumn to cool off. ’ 

When Kurt Georg Kiesinger and the’ 
Grand 1 Coalition- replaced the luckless 'Dr 
Erhard < in > December 1966 the* change! • 
6ver ' HitBonn ibameijust-’in iime» tti pav'd 
th£ way for t he long-overdue fresh start. 

- Once -again- amew Chancellor, a reputed . 
friend of Frnnce too- was- praifccd in Paris ) 
for his good intentions. Ills -government 
policy statement .Had -found favour with • 
the General . iartd; r tho : French - President i 
doclared his country's readiness. to renctiv- i 
ate political coopcratipiv along the lines of. 
Bonn’s now policy towards the Eastern 
BlOCi; -i i’i « i ■ i|i •! I - • • 

• Following 21 August - H968 the General- 
then- curtly; -ateused. -Dr. Kiosinger and - 



IN THIS ISSUE 


DIPLOMACY 


u/i r ■_■_>. virtk, t 


Page 3 

igotfations 1 


FILMS »'• <i ! Page 8 

I Cinemas greet a nfew generation 

v of filmgoers'Mh. :ic.»«./i;'.i 


replaced what was originally ltd be 
preferential > treatment, ■ • Is intended 1 to 
further European integration 1 in the West 
and rapprochement with' the East. 

Both goals are being pursued as though- 
they complement each 1 other and can bo 1 : 
achieved by means’ of the same basic- 
approach. It remains to be seen whether 
they 1 -can really be reconciled with one' 
another. • • « • • * i* • . / 

As late as HI 967- General de Gaulld > 
publicly declared that ’ a .high degree - of \ 
concentration* of i-forces in Western 
Europe leading to joint- political -moves: 
and joint defence including Britain might 
prove a -.hindrance to detente- and’ 
cooperation with Eastern Europe. !•• r.i -d 

Since summer 1968 • Paris has 1 realised - 
that’ prospects of an all-European sett lb. .- 
ment of differences .aimed at overcoming -! 
the division of the Continent into two., 
blocs. are poorer. than General de Gaulle 
had imagined. 

The French government )ias. noted a 
liardeningof, the Spvlel -regime- wljhln and 
without. It reckons on the Soviet leader- 
ship aiming pt.consolid(((lng its outward 
show of power In Contrnj and Eastern 
Europe and negotiating: consent to the 
status quo. 

• France accordingly feels that thq.tiiqe Is 
notyet ripe for negotiations apei that tills is 
decidedly not the riglif.mpmQnt .foj a , 
European conference that would, mainly [ 
be a propaganda show. Paris consequently 
remains none' too well-disposed -towards 
Soviet i pressure ’ for a-’confcfclico -of this 1 
kind. 1 -" '»«•«/»: • 'in '■*••• *. i 

At the last rtHlhd'of coilbukatib’ril' ft bid 1 
in, Baris,, the two countries did at. least 
agree .that i ■ the i. countries, of -Western . 
Europe can lonly i : defend , tliei r security i . 
interests, in the ’face of the SovietiUnion : 
byi -means of -at joint negotiating position- 1 
and joint, forces with the United- States, 
On this. point- France’s outlook coincides 
with this country’s. 




.... "1,^' 

liw- 




1 ih tha pr^wtldQ' bf Solrlat 'F^ralaH Trade Minister Patollohev (left) and Faderal 
^bohomlb Affairs Mi hi star Kfarl Sfch'iftbr (right) the agreement of deliveries' of- Soviet* 
1 gai 'tp thfs 'fcbunltV 'arid .a predif bgrfcement were signed on <1 February In Essen,’ 
' [Starting' irt J 197'^ Ihlttal 600 mtlllpn cubic metres of Siberian Hatural gas a year 
aW to’be Sdppiied. This ^iribuht' Is later to Increase to 3,000 million cubic metres 
per annum 1 Over a parlbd of twanty yaarB a total 'of 62,000 million cubic metres of : 
natural gas^ wbrth 2,566 ihillfoqJVIariqf are td be delivered to’Ruhrgaa of Essen. In 
exchange Nlahhesmerin and JhysMn'l pipeline division ar^ to supply the Soviet 
Ui^ion with 1.2 mill Ion tons of large-rjlamstar pipeline.' A Federal Republic banking 
Consortium headed by' Deutsche Bqi>k is to 'finance 'the project. (Sea article below.) 

* . li i> • -i (I'halo. ilpn) 


j-i ‘5 ■« . -I- 


Chancclldr hrCridthns ebiphnsisod that 1 
France 1 stipndrts his g'oveVnmoht’s llrbsli J 
initiative In* polity 16 wards the Eastdfh' 
Blop. 1 PrtMdenr Pompidou hak expressly 


said so.' Wliat niiglit be called 1 FTa'neirs 
Rapallo coinpldx' is o thihg'of tlrenast/ai ' 
‘ as 1 the' 'govdmmeht ' 1 is 


least ns faf 
cdh edrned. ■ 


, (incondltioual , suppqrt. . for,, ,tji^.,nqw ( 
Ejastcrn .policy, is. bRsed on Willy, Braq^t’s; 
assgraiicei , tJm,t he ,, Federal govofnmenj f 
viewft^finn, ^Uiancc .with -Its, .partners In 
Western, | Europe , and, ,900 {^ration .wltliin . 
the Common Market tdi be jhe, inalienably, 
fundament'of Its foreign policy. 

//II IJ II It V-'i .1 ,’ltl^lll. ll-.i M 

-- For- jthe time, .being tha, [question ’of 
British, u-entryj i.foto,- -the. /Europeanr 
Economic Community has not resulted in 


renewed differences or opinion lidtwcon 
Paris and Bonn. ... . 

On this issue relations between the six 
members of the fEC will prove of Hie 
greatest importance, (n Paris Herr Brandt 
wns not only at pains to outline the, 
peridectlvcS 1 , liih its and goals of his policy' 
a'jV Eastern 1 Ellrojk: in oVder tO tfjljicBSQ 
F/dnch in isgIVi ngs. ' ‘ ‘ ' 1 ' ' ‘ : ' 1 ' ' " * 

Th'6‘ Chan cblloi 1 jil^b mad’c j( cleai 1 that 
renewal Of Uic BohiFP^fli oh tdi) to Is itot 1 
of an exclusive nature nriti'mbst'ex t6nd'ld ‘ 
the rtmiiiiiirig folir 'hibinberk of tlit Six ’ 


tqo, if only so. as not to give, rise .to 1 
fuhher nlistriiSt: ’ ‘ 

This IS' a 1 'sensible apbr6i'ch. ' It 1 can' but ' 


Mi • " I r. ’ ■ . • 




SCIENCE- : ’ *• • •• ;• » Page 9 ? 

New bacteria discovered J 

at Plon Institute 11 i ! 

1 

EBUSINESS' 1 . . - Page 12; 

At Cologne furniture fair j 

plastics are In • : ' j 

igiiiniiiiiiuiinnnjiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiimiKniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiitirTTiBimi^ 


Page 12; 


S oviet .pipeline .pbrCliaSos inthjS^Oun- • 1 1 
try are bound to create a stir. After 
negotiation of the most serious hurdles in 
months of talks the agreement was finally 
signed o,n , ) : ! F,eb roarv. in Essen., , . x r , . , 


negqiiat|pn . of ‘.jinutui 
credit’ conditions ' fa 1 




II1TUNG rUR DEUTSCHLAND 


• ■ . ; 1 , Member of T.E.A.M. fTop European Advertising Media) 

Advertising representatives for U.S.A.: ' ' * 

I. N .T.A. .InternaUonal NeWspaper and .trade Advertising, 1560 Brdadway, New York, N.Y, 10036,' Tel. 212 581.3755 

v. ' AdvertlsIngrepresentatlvWfprU^k,; : 

■1 •HfT* 0 ** Betker «ft^t.fL6ti4on w.l„ TA Welbedc 5407 


. 'it-'. ■ • : .i.i 


“Hi'".' • -i-s 


•••••'. i ..i,i 

i .i, i . ■ : 


Foreign * Minister -Willy Brandt of 
contributihg towards the Czech catastro-j 
phe with their Eastern policy. 

J When President Pompidou visited Bonn 1 
for consulatlons at ' the height of the! 
Bundestag 'election campaign his opposite 
numbers no- longer tepreseqted a govern- 
ment capable, of decision-making. 

• ! M.-i Pompidou ; nonetheless, used itha 
opppi^ unity to make.a definite allusion in* 
4 speech to Foreign ’ Minister Brandt! 
alongside Chancellor Kiesinger, who was 
still in office, as a future .partner. He was 
later ; to. congratulate, himself for having! 
.had the idea. • :■ .1 j 

■*' Exemplary cooperation, which has now 




Russians the ^ep , copcern^d ,rip ' ^longer 
feel that the amount involved isanytKJng 
to writehonile about.' 1 ''..iT' 

But * pplitfc^lly interested iVieitibe/s of 
the genira) public wljl realise fortheflrst 
time what an uncommon 1 volurpe of! 
commerce has suddenly Occupied the 
blank spaces between this * ‘country' apd 
the Soviet Uiiibn.' The surprise ’will be 1 , 
everi greater for public opinion elsewhere 
in the West. . 

Stopped shoit in their everyday 
political tracks,' many people abroad will 
be wondering whether, bihind the' 
accustomed 1 facade of controversy 
between the Soviet Uiilon and this 
country something revolutionary might 
not suddenly be 6 ecu ring 


agreement signed 

ilVi -'i-im, - I -in. .(iiX.!.; t 

iif i..iv/ 'inib. , ':| :i.ri !r . u-i l< > !*.. 

c?Hght nappipg- - ri „ i., t , 

■Despite- the -<> enormous ..amount- -.of- 
business involved and the ■ handsltake i 
between Bonii- Econofhic, Affairs lylin^r 
Schiller i pnd., Soviet,, forclai,!^ Trade. / 
Minister, Pa toliphev the same old poUticalo 
reality of troublesome stumbling blocks 
between Moscow and Bonn remains. 

A&eeihent in E^enls pbi’ a pdllllcai signal. 

nT- .1 : tii" - ■'••i 

Talk of a new Rapallo will not- come to 
an., end : . | so swiftly, though.) .This- 
hackneyed view , of. the uncertainties, of • 
relations between this.amntty and ; the, 
Soviet Union is a hardy evergreen, pfid ; 
not only because it is so easy to resurreqt. 

..Bonn will havq ", Its work cut , out 
dissuading doubters who, suspect political 
motives behind the natural gas deal that 


W hoped tlial [ Fralhce will adopt, it ln (lid 1 
samft'spWh [Loihor Rush!' ! 

.' ■mu : bi^'WBLT, i 2 1, Pb6Mipfcy ( i4V6) J 

• ll-<M.I |*> ■ . -<i .1 ; - t •*■!> '• 1 II- • i 

— * — - ■ ■ ■ : ■ * . ) . . . ; i - » . i . ■ i 

dk : ‘not e&isf,' sad \o saV, By'plaVjng' the 
dbdJ 'doWH"6dtt'n' is uhWlitlngly'maklii^d': 
psychb-dolltfcai '^aUiy out ofa.'^petiu^-. 
tWc wdriy for wHStlytlidte is do icnditw 

' If . Is’ no,t is' '^loug^BotiV Rol p[?Wd . 

Jt.js ^c)lghtef) f; PoflllfaJ,. 
op^rvers and .acjyiscrs. were. .present igt 
eyciy stage, of thp negotiations but, ther^. 


Isrio political, wrapper.. , . ... , ^ 

Of lato relations' between Bonn and: 
Moscow or .Bonn and .the Eastern 
Blo6 h^ve, if anything! worsened. Poland, 
for- instance* is nqt at present enthusiastic i 
about the idea : of economic quantity 
developing into • political quality in the' 
near future; • 1 • *• : j 

ilt need hardly be said, that Foreign 
Office aide Egon Bahr's mission to. 
Moscow, has not been made one jo teaser , 
by the agreement in Esseii. He will have, 
no ‘easier time of it in the Soviet capilaL 
But this does poh deprive the natural gas 
deal of its special significance and own 
value. . (Frankfurtor AHgt-metao ZeUung 
fUr Deutschland, Z February 19701 


i 




THE GERMAN TRIBUNE 


■ FOREIGN AFFAIRS 

European Security Conference 
- to be or not to be? 


F or some time the Soviet government 
has assured all and sundry that the 
time is ripe for a European security 
conference. This view, voiced last au- 
tumn, was reiterated this January in an 
official declaration by the Moscow For- 
eign Ministry. 

Presumably the time is now even riper 
than it was claimed to be in a Pravda 
article of last November. The time is, of 
course, always ripe - to the extent that 
security is always a topical subject regard- 
less whether one already has it or Is still 
on the lookout. 

The prospects of the security con- 
ference, on the other hand, are by no 
means so rosy as to warrant hopes of 
success being on the cards. Not even the 
essential preliminaries have been brought 
to a successful conclusion, as Moscow weii 
knows. 

Everyone feels he knows what security 
is. Despite any number of declarations, 
memoranda, speeches and talks, though, 
we are still pretty much in the dark as to 
how to bring It about. 

In August 1969 Pravda wrote that the 
aim of the conference was to prepare a 
conference on collective security in Eu- 
rope. Collective security, it will be re- 
membered, is an old friend from diplo- 
macy between the wars. 

Negotiating collective security for an 
entire continent proved impossible then. 

It would obviously, be a far tougher nut . 
to crack now, with the “results of the 
Second World War,” the socialist camp, , 
the Iron Curtain and divided Germany. 

I? tjie .first cqpimiinist ca|I 

«>“>■ uIml HUM.., I. 

EEC unity gets 
off to a good 
start 

S ince the end of January the six EEC 
countries have been on the way tg 
economic and monetary union, a com- 
mon market in which, in a few years’ 
time, mepibpr-coun tries will have a com- 
mpt|, currency and. trade, economic and 
monetary .policy will fie controlled by 
Brussels. 

Since' 25 January one Common Market 
country .not only has the right to inter 
vepe „ln. another's trade and economic i 
policy; the Six have agreed that their 
currently national, economic policies must 
soon be directed towards common econo- 
mic policy targets. 

..Warnlqg shots are to be fired should, 
annual increases in prices, unemployed or 
ba^nce-of.payments surpluses between' 
iSJ.iapd, 1975 reach a Jeyel at which the ; 
etc as a whole is in danger. 1 • ' 1 1 , 

The Brussels EEC Commission has to : 
submit by autumn proiwsais for the levels 
at which the alarm is to be sounded. This 
will pfove no easy task, particularly as the 
Sx,- agreed ■ thbiigH ' they : may be to' 

planning targets, are far from agreed as to 

what these targets should be.: 

■ Though disputes can be expected' this 
autumn when the figures are at stake, but ’ 
prior consultation on important trade and , 
economic decisions among the Six could' 
nchj to define the situation. ', . 

. Prior const It ntfnn aordart An n 


tySBBSSBB 


ate 


for a security conference was heard at 
BucJiarest it looked as though the Ger- 
man Question was to be the heart of the 
matter. At Budapest In March 1969 the 
Warsaw Pact states proposed the con- 
ference Idea to Europe in a changed and 
more urgent form, but still basically 
aimed at Germany. 

Then the worm turned. In Prague at the 
beginning of last November the Warsaw 
Pact countries, led by the Soviet Union, 
reduced and specified the topics to be 
discussed at the conference. 

There are to be two: security through 
renunciation of the use or threat of force 
and expansion of economic and scientific 
and technical links with the aim of 
furthering political cooperation between 
all European countries. 

Tlie two can be lumped together but 
basically they represent two entirely se- 
parate conferences to be held as one. The 
second topic is relatively easy to deal 
with provided everyone is serious and free 
to arrange exchanges with any of the 
others with whom trade and technologi- 
cal cooperation are considered desirable. 

All- European enterprises can be agreed 
too - oil pipelines and the like, as was 
later suggested by Pravda. There should 
be no . special difficulty In arranging a 
conference of this kind, even though not 
evory- countoy -is keen on- showing Us hand 
in public. 1 

It is the combination with renunciation 
of force that has prevented preparations 
for the conference from making headway. 
Renunciation of the use of force in 
Europe, is not the same for the Soviet 
Union as U is for, say, Switzerland. It is a 
matter of size and commitments. 

Ought a close mash of bilateral treaties 
to be woven On a broader European , 
frame- work? Or ought an all-round Euro- 
pean agreement outlawing the use of forefe to 
be negotiated? Are there any intentions 
of setting up a supreme authority along- 
side the United Nations, whose task is 
also to examine and control develop- 
ments tending towards violence? ' " 

It can already be seen how all these 
ma fieri interlock. Moscow does not make 
the security conference dependent on tire 


outcome of the negotiations with Bonn 
on renunciation of the use of force, 
Ulbricht is demonstratively waiting for 
the outcome of the Moscow-Bonn talks 
before entering into negotiations with 
this country and Bonn links prior nor- 
malisation of relations with the GDR 
with a security conference worth holding 
ns the conference would otherwise have 
to deal with too much political dynamite. 

Yet while the remainder wait and wait 
for the initiators of the conference idea 
to clarify matters they themselves appear 
continually to beholding discussions 011 
the subject, which can only mean that not 
even they are thoroughly thougt over 
everything. 

The Yugoslavs also attended a recent 
gathering of this kind and as attentive 
observers in the interest of non-alignment 
among communist countries too they 
revealed that there had been talk of a 
conference of European peoples, what- 
ever that may mean. 

Perhaps a preparatory conference of 
Parties from European countries, though 
surely not all, is intended, maybe nothing 
more than a further communist prepara- 
tion for the grand security gathering. At 
all events it would seem to indicate that 
the Soviet Union is no longer convinced 
of the accuracy of its assessment of 
ripeness. Something can be visualised by 
way of a security conference even with 
the; two topics combined but vague sup- 
positions are not enough. Ail that can be 
said with any certainty is that both 
German states will take part. 

Yet does everyone mean the same by 
force in an age when it can also take the 
form of subversion and underground acti- 
vities? Preparations for negotiations 011 
collective security must be made alto- 
gether differently in a continent that is 
not a collective. Maxim Fackler 

(SUddeutsche Zellung. 28 January 1970) 

Scheel invite 
from President 
Talhouni 

J ordon Premici 1 Talhouni has invited 
Foreign Minister Schccl of this country 
to pay Jordan an official visit. Tho date 
has yet to be fixed. 

Talhouni's visit to (his country came to 
an end on 29 January with the signature 
of a capital assistance and aviation agree- 
ment to the value of .25 million Marks. 

In talks with the Foreign Minister the 
Jordanian Premier wished that more Jor- 
danian workers were allowed to work in 
this country and expressed the hope that 
more In the way of humanitarian aid 
might be done for refiigees in Jordan. • 

1 (DIE WKLT, 30 January 1970) ■ 


Moscow- P eking smoke screen 1 


A re Moscow and Peking waging a war" people's war - and In Red Chiriii’sW' 

opinion orT th™ wo / ld this means more than the entire popiila- 

opinton or is there a serious danger that tion of th<* Qn V ut iiniAn 

SKitr?' 


Prior consultation, agreed on 27 The Pekipg government is at. present 
January, gives member-countries the right P V*? U , g s policy prior to the War 
to intervene in decisions taken by the J 1 ™ Hitler. It is negotiating with the 
othert that affect prices, imports or the ‘ §? vlet u ?ton, looking oUt for allies in the 
employment situation of the community ” est and - having learnt Stalin's bitter ■ 
aj, a whole. ■ • - . . . r ■ lesson, preparing at the same time' for a 

™s- may not be 'much, since 1 the Soviet attack - 1 , 

ivirf Z iiivIiImI m p .if ■ 1 . ’ , . ■_ 1 . 1 


in WarK?T S * * P thC °“ ,break ° fWar > the bone of contention. A third 

^Second World nuclear great powers! fl^outa bringTo 
Si a | h8l l dS at °hscrvm g the nought all the international political ar 

* . SCCne &r ® 8 a loSS for ran 8 emen M the United States and the 

The Peking government is at. present Nothing can be, ijone about 1,000 . 
pursuing Stalins policy prior to the war million .Chinese armed with the same 

with Hitler. It is negotiating with the kjsane weapons as their ideological pp- 

Snvlpt I Ihlnn IaaMh* aV.« ~ 1 1 1 _ _ * nnnftnic In Mn.AAt.1 Hi— it.* i ,ii ~ 


ponents in Moscow and Washington. Were 
it possible to eliminate this prospectively 
insoluble problem by means of a preven- 
tive war, a pretext could easily be found. 

Hut itiviA 3 m » m i i a 


10 February 1970 -No. 

Bonn and the 
Middle East 


No. 409 - 10 February 1970 


DIPLOMACY 


THE GERMAN TRIBUNE 


T ordan Premier Talhouni's official v EgOll Bahr ftiCS tO MOSCOW tO 
J to Bonn ami the intensification • g* t • • 

negotiate for negotiaions 

Federal government ns n demons^ ° 

gesture for consumption by Arab opi^i 

Three years ago King Hussein bo)< l? 8 on Bahr, t ^ ie State Secretary in the attempts to open negotiations with Mot 

went it alone and re-established dinloii*-^ Chancellor's Office, undertook his cow. The great urgency with Egon Bah 

tic relations with Bonn, breaking Jkasty mission to Moscow as a last-minute had to pack his bags and leave shows tha 

boycott of this country by ten menih rescue bid. the government has realised its East Bloi 

of the Arab League. In the three sessions of talks that policies are not meeting with success am 

Since then the consequences of -j ambassador Helmut Allardt held in De- will not do so unless urgent action i 
Middle East counict, particularly n c€mber January with the Soviet taken. 

fortunate for Jordan, have reduced h porei B n Minister Andrei Gromyko there East Berlin seems bent on blocking th 
man’s freedom of manoeuvre in /bra* w?re no of Moscow and Bonn path towards serious dlcussions witl 
policy and it can be assumed rhat qiiickly to friendly terms. Bonn. For as long as there are no talk 

present visit is no longer entirely Rather, Gromyko explained, without with Russian government Walter Ulbrich 

Jordan’s doing. It will also be in ik Boillg 11110 great detai * on pobtical nice ‘ kas an eas y task of cowering behind th 

interest of other Arab countries ° ^ es » kow Moscow Sees the broad sweep of back of Ills big brothers in Moscow. 

Vehement as ever, Syria is demandin deVelo P ment on tlie European continent. Even the Poles who seem keenest of a 
boycott of this and' other Western era As a diplomat Allardt found there was for a tdtc-a-t&te with this country's gc 

tries that lend Israel economic or mti kltle kc could say in reply. Egon Bahr Is a vernment are finding It hard to settl 

assistance. As yet President Nasser b different kettle of fish. He has been Willy matters at the moment, 

had no comment to make to the Eca Brandt’s riglit-hand-man and trusted con- A resumption of diplomatic relation 
mic Council of the Arab Leasue in Qj Bdante since 19 ^0. He is the kind of between Warsaw and Bonn, which th 

Presumably the boycott is Svria'ta ne S otiator who will be far readier to Federal Republic government must de 

rather than Fovnf’c J come to terms with such wider perspec- mend as recognition of their acceptanc 

TnrHnn .L , . . , tives. of the Oder-Neisse Line, would be thwarl 

ill a peaceful soIiiIIoiHoUk Middleh At the °f this exchange of Ideas. 2e rt a^ t y' ® f g to V ^ , ^eemir 

Nations rcsolulio". i, further „ ron f nf “illy it is expressed in term, sta 

Chancellor Willy Brandt s reilcrnlionj Balir s trip to Russia is further proof of . . t con has becn Mnt t 

this country’s firm resolve not tosupf* kow earnest Chancellor Brandt is in his to 8 sho ® h ow kcen the Bon 

nrniameiits to international hot sjtt government Is to open negotiations, 

contrasts with the attitude of the ^ __ _ , .5 But communist officials will not take 

1 U I', 'j j 0- in ^ be Hying to mediate i LhSIlCElIOr OFflllClt S as a yardstick for the seriousness c 

the Middle East but are all involved in Bonn’s intent how high ranking the me 

livcrie™ 11111 * com I >rebc,,s * vc arms * travel Sclicdlllc are who are sent to discuss the situatia 

The political and economic potentials If these attempts to sound out th 

lllnu? ?| U mfn y .,i 8, °, f C ?f ,rse .’ l . , ?ji ! P hancelloT Brandt has announced that situation sliould lead to actual negotli 

allow Bonn to enter the Middle Enslfl Iie w m probably be paying President Hons, and it seems that the negotiator 

scene as a peacemaker but it shp/ NixQn antf Vasliington an official visit will lead \o a measure of success i 

sulficc lor a clear definition and mi early in April. Moscow, Warsaw and East Berlin, thei 

te nance of Bonn’s role as a strict nea(fi jf le chancellor is to visit Premier Wil- will be demands for great concession 

Even in Arab countries it Is no longa gon j n L 0n{ j on on 3 anc j 4 March. Whether and how far the Bonn govcri 

noccssnry to explain wliy this country! Herr Brandt is thus continuing the ment ls prepared to go along with this 

its policy towards the Middle East isnfl tound of consu ii a tions desired by the still shrouded in irritating mystery. Sine 

in a position to disregard tho vital k West, particularly in yiew of th e Federal at Herbert Wehncr’s behest, it was decide 

terests of (he Israeli people. 1 government’s policy on Germany and the to throw caution to the winds with regar 

Tills, however, must not take the Ton Eastern Bloc. t0 the CDU/CSU it appears that the g< 

of one sided partiality In a multi-strain (Frankfurter Rundschau, 25 January 1970) vernment has fallen between two stool 
conflict that haB led to Soviet penetralltt 

of the Mediterranean and thus necessary - ■ — ■ — — ■ — - ■■ - — 

to a worsening of Europe’s stralep 

position. T'he relationship of Washington to T^nT^l (Yn rtrhlif»\ 

(DKii ta(ji:sshi:c;i:l, 29 January iw X' Cuba and Vietnam and the change in A* XIJ. Clgll iJUllL/j 


Chancellor Brandt’s 
travel schedule 

G hancellor Brandt has announced that 
he will probably be payingPresident 
Nixon and Washington an official visit 


attempts to open negotiations with Mos- 
cow. The great urgency with Egon Bahr 
had to pack his bags and leave shows that 
the government has realised its East Bloc 
policies are not meeting with success and 
will not do so unless urgent action is 
taken. 

East Berlin seems bent on blocking the 
path towards serious dlcussions with 
Bonn. For as long as there are no talks 
with Russian government Walter Ulbricht 
has an easy task of cowering behind the 
back of fils big brothers in Moscow. 

Even the Poles who seem keenest of all 
for a rdte-a-tdte with this country's go- 
vernment are finding It hard to settle 
matters at the moment. 

A resumption of diplomatic relations 
between Warsaw and Bonn, which the 
Federal Republic government must de- 
mand as recognition of their acceptance 
of the Oder-Neisse Line, would be thwart- 
ed by the East Berlin government witii 
certainty if Bonn came to an agreement 
with Poland and no other East Bloc 
country. 

Officially it is expressed in terms stat- 
ing that Egon Bahr has becn sent to 
Moscow to show how keen the Bonn 
government Is to open negotiations. 

But communist officials will not take it 
as a yardstick for the seriousness of 
Bonn’s intent how high ranking the men 
are who are sent to discuss the situation 
with them. 

If these attempts to sound out the 
situation sliould lead to actual negotia- 
tions, and it seems that the negotiations 
will lead a measure of success in 
Moscow, Warsaw and East' Berlin, there 
will be demands for great concessions. 
Whether and how far the Bonn govern- 
ment Is prepared to go along with this is 
still shrouded in irritating mystery. Since, 
at Herbert Wehncr’s behest, it was decided 
to throw caution to the winds with regard 
to the CDU/CSU it appears that the go- 
vernment has fallen between two stools. 



Egon Bahr (left) being welcomed by Ambassador Helmut Allardt at Moscow airport 

(Photo i dps) 


On the one hand the SPD/FDP govern- 
ment would like to entice the communist 
East to enter into negotiations by giving 
the impression of extreme flexibility. On 
the other hand the Brandt-Scheel govern- 
ment is aware that Indealings with the 
East a hard exterior is essential and it is 
wary of letting more than the cat’s head 
out of the bag. 

It Is only in this light that the juggling 
with terms that government representa- 
tives have performed recently to an amaz- 
ed public can be explained. 

In his report on the State of tlie Nation 
Cliancellor Brandt assured us once again: 
“for us international recognition of the 
GDR is out of the question”. Herbert 
Wehner, however, in an interview with 
Der Spiegel answered the .quest ion. whethi 
er under certain circumstances the ques- 
tion of intemalional recognition could be 

P laced in a new light with an unqualified 
es. 

How these two utterances can possibly 
signify complete agreement and under- 
standing between Brandt and Wehner is 
incomprehensible to the normal Indivi- 
dual. 

Conrad Aiders, as government spokos* 


j ji ij , J wc liiuun, sure me 7 — , ..... , » wuiu casny oe iounu, 

individual cbimtrlM still, hive the filial . 'Preparations are taking nlace at two 1 5* ‘PC is m China's favour and 
say. But it is a start. ^ '■ . levels Cin th* n L u a \ ' ace wi ° therein lies the danger, 

n g htv, b eh, E '„,ohi^r;^ ' 


w a Milling ui Europe S siraiq* 

10 sit Ion. 'I 1 he relationship of Washington to 

(DKii ta(ji:sshi.(;i:l, 29 January ns X Cuba and Vietnam and the change in 

the ties between Prague of Czechoslo- 

- ; - vakia in the autumn of 1968 have shown 

, that new' elements are involved today In 

j ttfr M ' 1 the feelings bfbne State towards another. 

(2/l)E wCVlUfltl avibunc If foreign policy is not to be power 

politics in 'classic style it must be based 
on a deep understanding of the social 
Fri.rfHrt. baTa'a conditions in other countries. ■" 

FniroB im JJ ' In the United States of America people 

sb.,s.,; ™™P r *. h _ e « d = d - “omplefely^ ‘hat the Vic- 

lkl •, tor y Fidel Castro in Cuba was respon- 

ASSISTANT EDiroR-IN-CHIEFi rib f e for a forced chan ge i„ the 

0,u,HBini ■ climate. •- 

editori - The revolution in Cuba need not have 

"T* An,hDnY kd to Communism. Castro was forced to 

English language suB EDirORi take this line since American' foreign 
Doiirey Penny policy did not allow for the fact that on 

general manageri the island a social process was under way 

Dinndtti that was not in itself irrevocably destined 

Fncdudi Boinodsp vcring GmbH. to lead to a hostile policy towards the 

*-• Bmorno Au»kictil, Uamburn 2Z oi . _ - r 

. tbi.) 2 - 20 - 12 -su - Telex) 02-14731 ■ United States. 

AdveiiniH tf .iat«i ua No. 7 The same applies to Vietnam, where 

. pnqiBd by 1 i ^e American public again fails to com- 

jfiS. Krogen Bu*- und voriagidniAarei prehend that powerful' forces are at work 
. H«mburg-D]«nkonBia * or democratic and liberal changes to the 

Di&tiibnteii in iha usa by. J9 c,al structure and to abolish inherited 

mass mailings, inc hierarchies. • 

Na!f'y«t 2 N¥ 8l Sj Tke situation only became a bungle 

Mspajs'isstss pJffftJSS 

adiioriai iiaiFi of fading nawipapen ofj*. the change of power ih Vietnam co uld be 
K'-ivirfi SPaJSjV! influenced by sending in troops and arms. 

way abridged or adilorlally radfaltad The net fegult of tills Was that fo part 
u oil egrrctppndeoet pieai* quota y«« tk* Vietnamese people shied away from 
•cripiieii'nimdwr, wMdi oppem en iha i the Americans' and adopted a tendency 

I. Ih. rigiii ai y... towards Communism. 

In the days of the Prague spring the 


publisher. 

Friedrich Roincdca 
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, 
Eborhard Wagner 

ASSISTANT EDITOR-IN-CHIEF. 
Olio Heinz 

EDITOR. • • 

Alt-candor Anthony 
ENGLISH LANGUAGE SUB-EDITOR. 
Godfrey Penny 

GENERAL MANAGER. 

Hvlnz Relnndcu 

Frlcdridt Rolnodtp Vqrlog GmbH. 
23. Scheme Auakiiht, flaniburn 22 
. Ta».i 2-20-12-56 . Tofezi 02-14731 
Adverlltlrm-ialus lifcl No. 7 
* Printed by I i 

KrOgeil Bush- und Vorlagidnidceral 
Hamburg-Dlenkoneia 
Distributed in Iha USA by. 
MASS MAILINGS, Inc 
5<0 Went 24th 8lrei>t 
New York, N.Y. 1001 1 


Foreign policy must take social 
requirements into account 


overriding opinion was that even in Mos- 
cow there was a good deal of understand- 
ing for the situation in Czechoslovakia. 

Novotny’s position was no longer 
tenable and his fall could make way for a 
new style in Czech society. 

It was even considered that Dubcek’s 
reform programme was tolerable to the 
Soviet way of thinking. It in no way 
threatened unity in the Communist camp, 
whereas the 1956 Hungarian Revolution 
had loudly proclaimed a secession from 
the Warsaw Pact as its Intention. 

The brutal attack on the Czech people 
was a retrogression to the old, brutal 
foreign policy of coercion devoid of any 
understanding for the feelings of the 
people in the country involved, who were 
demanding a change to their social' sys- 
tem, a change for which the time was 
indisputably ripe. 

If the Brandt-Scheel government is to be 
regarded as a cabinet of international 
reforms (.with some stress on assuming 
revolutionary tendencies in an evolu- 
tionary process) it is willing to take Kb 
leads from the changing situation in other 
countries and incorporate them in Its 
foreign policy among other things. 

Parliamentary State Secretary to the 
Foreign Office Rolf Dahrendorf said dur- 


ing tlie course of the last NATO meeting 
in Brussels what direction the Ministry’s 
concepts were aiming. 

He said at the time that peace depend- 
ed on the conversion of State-based for- 
eign policies to ones that took as their 
basis the needs and requirements of the 
social structure in the countries in ques- 
.. tjjon. 

Dahrendorf is prepared to Include in his 
estimates the relationships of third parties 
to the German Democratic Republic, 
since developing countries has a far dif- 
ferent relationship to ! the Federal Repu- 
blic, for example, thari that betweert 
neighbouring countries such as France or 
England. 

The Bonn government Is quite prepared 
according to Dahrendorf to listen to 
advice that has not yet been included in 
the foreign policies it has formulated. 

He spoke expressly of the preparedness 
of the Foreign Office to conform to this 
new modus operand!. Dahrendorf hopes 
that this new concept of relations to 
other countries can gain ground in the 
Federal Republic faster than in other 
countries. 

Training diplomats is, in his opinion, a 
very important aspect of this work. A 
corresponding plan, specifically aimed at 


man, the man who is closest to the 
thought of senior government officials, 
has taken pains to unravel the Gordian 
Knot. He failed. 

From what has been said it Is hard to 
avoid the impression tiiat tire government 
is moving step by step nearer to recogni- 
tion of the GDR. This decision is not 
Intcndet to be a capitulation but a move 
by the government to get something in 
return from the other side. They want 
special relations between the two states 
which will prevent a further alienation of 
the two halves of Germany. 

This is the difficulty against which the 
Opposition has come up in its rather 
aimless struggle against government po- 
licy. 

Egon Bahr who is now on the way lo 
Moscow on Willy Brandt’s behalf has said 
In the past few days that on the other side 
of the Iron Curtain senior officials do not 
want Bonn to recognise the GDR. In fact in 
the eyes Of the Eastern Bloc countries 
recognition of the GDR would be com- 
plete cani tula tion 011 Bonn’s part and this 
is exactly what the central government 
cannot allow. lib //gang Wagner 

(Honnover&che Allgemalns, 29 Jnnuory 1970) 


foreign cultural policy, is lo be published 
later this year. 

When prime ministers of various coun- 
tries meet nowadays they talk about 
questions of technological cooperation 
and student unrest with equal ease. Tiie 
conclusion Dahrendorf draws from this is 
that the various tilings that go to make up 
the world around should be viewed as a 
whole. 

The example he postulates is coopera- 
tion on the peaceful use of atomic 
energy, the problem of water pollution, 
clean air, . town and . country planning, 
crime, questions of minority groups and 
young people in revolt. All in all this 
amounts to the concept of ‘society* as it 
is today In its positive and negative sense. 

Dahrendorf ventured to surmise that 
within five years there will be no inter- 
national conferences at which such ques- 
tionsarenot raised. 

At the forthcoming talks between 
Geoiges Pompidou and Willy Brandt the 
items will be on the agenda. 

Many matters previously confined to 
domestic policies will be discussed on an 
international Level. 

For tills coiintry it is natural that 
'foreign policy’ signifies pushing through 
the interests of the Federal Republic- But 
it Is quite feasible that we will subject our 
own interests to the greater international 
good. Nevertheless we can nowadays pur- 
sue our own ends without falling suspect 
of being nationalistic. Georg Gusmami 

(.Handel&blatt, 28 January 1970) 


THE GERMAN TRIBUNE 


10 February 1970 - No. 4ft No - 409 ' 10 Febrtlar y 1970 


THE GERMAN TRIBUNE 


THE SERVICES 


Armed forces must keep 
pace with the times 


F irst results can be seen from the great 
stock-taking of the armed forces. In 
speaking with unit commanders of ail 
ranks Defence Minister Helmut Schmidt 
not only gained direct contact with the 
troops but also introduced Some cairn into 
the units. 

The Army has lacked for far too long a 
word of explanation from and the perso- 
nal influence of its politically responsible 
commander-in-chief i Helmut . Schmidt's 
example shows that the army general 
staffs comprehensive and controversial 
study on inner leadership need never have 
been made. Por the first time the armed 
forces have In one figure a Defence 
Minister and nn Army Minister. 

They will still need him ns the real crisis 
of the new Army is yet to conic. Its 
causes do not lie in : German history nor in 
the character of individual generals, in the 
sphere of military tradition or in inner' 
leadership* but on the borders of inter- 
national' politics and the economics of 
armament. • • 

Young officers 
!; give' their view of , 
• the modern Army 

Y opng lieutenants from Army .Officer 
Softool II , iti, Hamburg have published , 
nine critical theses on the function of'ap 
officer. 

Apny commander, - Jdou. tenant peheti I 

Albert Schnez. . 4 . 

; One; poinj : mad? in : the f hwcjs'is that 
oTicprs should .reject ,a .tradition built 
oply ; on Jmitn tion and rcitoy ncing a II new. 

: Arts, officer^ they, claim, J , slio.iijd iijso 1 
question ^erYicc- prders and.ppt svvc^r 
loyalty .; to persons or i offices, oply^lo 
constitutional orders. 

Any contravention of on armed forces' 
principle should be punished within the 
ftariwWork of. Basic Law..| p.i.rilv. -v.i 
One thesis demanded .that . officor? 
sliould .make some icontr ibutiop .tor the 
estnblishhicnt . ahd the. preservation- of 

poaccj -M'.- . . jj i i.j;,'..., , . 

:;Hc .should .plsoi jinakc.g .sharp; division 
betwben .sdiYiceland Ueisute lUmen as the 
npist consider,’ his job to be [firing and one 
of .responsibility: . ... \. v w „ . i( | ( 

(SDddeujKhc Zeltung.27 January (91?) 

- v. 

H 1 ' • u. i::;- , . , -i.l ,i?.. fj vl1 

!-/'• . .ju ,: 1 ■ ii. .!•.'■ m|| ,;t- ...r. 

LT elmut Sdlihiidf s- decision as Defence 
** Minister' to give the Commanders: of 
1h’c ! tprce branches ’Of the Armed forces 
pbWer in'therr spheres. Army, Navy and 
Air Pofce rb moves ah Irritation that.has 
a fflicted , ; .officers 'at . ..ail levels since t,he 
formation of lithe; Binfaeswehr, ^.tfi? 
inundation of the armed, forced. with, a 
flood of orders, commands, .decrees .gntj 
regulations from all possible departments 
ofi | hi? Ifj i n islry . .. V.. .7 , . . , ; . . 

.. Up till now th<5 commander s have ' had 
the '.status of advisers. They yrere a,ble to 
give orders .to. their brand} but- cpiUq nQj 
control and coordinate! the; influence oh 



The existential problem of the armed 
forces is more of a mathematical than a 
psychological nature. The new Minister is 
trying to prepare the Army for tiic 
large-scale revision of armed forces policy 
that has become inescapable. 

It will be characterisd by savings and 
cuts at home and by arms limitation and 
the rciativisalion of contributions to mili- 
tary alliances in (lie international sphere. 

The new realities with which armed 
forces policy in this country will have to 
reckon iti the seventies now. question the 
concept ion and' the structure of this 
country's, defence contributions. 1 The 
situation is characterised by , the .rapid 
increase in the costs of weapon develop-' 
ment and re-quipping armies, by the 
increased political tendency in North 
America to reduce the strength of 
American troops jn .Europe and by the 
priority placed, qn , a global security 
partnership, between fae United States 
and the Soviet. Union to limit strategic 
arms and the risk of conflict. Military 
alliances 1 Will then act as’ instruments of 
artharnent control . ‘ ’ 

; Armed forces leadership mpst prepare 
Itself for solutions' tiiit will not be Alto- 
gether feyou rabid. The latitude of options 
-A.lnmto. W the' tine 1 Hand' ^reduction in 


a,culc titortag?. of officers.; . , , 1 

General Stangl has once again quoted 
l hp [.figures. 55 per cent,, of officer 
candidates in the professional Army and 
fifty per cent in tho conscripted Army arc 
lacking. 

The situation is similar, in niid-lorm 
budgetary .••nlalmirig/ i : .the extent 5 : of 
armament plans must be reduced. The 
five large-scale rearmament projects —a 
new fighter plane/rocketfjiaring frigates, 
an army helicopter fleet, a new anti-air- 
craft tank and a new battle tank - would 
cost more money than can be raised in 
the) next five budgets.; Reductions will be 

inevitable. -iii ii-:o i. ! . ,:-i < :i 

; III'. . -V 


If the armed Forces are to pass their 
test and accommodate themselves to new 
realities, the first necessity will be 
rational thinking, rational organisation 
and rational planning. 

The commanders of the three branches 
of the armed forces will need to be 
strengthened if competence, function and 
responsibility are to coincide. 

But the new. Minister. will grant them 
only a limited Independence for the sake 
of central control and effective compre- 
hensive planning. Talk of a dissolution of 
the armed forces will become loud in 
future. Dc Maiziere, Inspector General of 
the Armed Forces, enjoys the unlimited 
confidence of the Minister as ail adviser in 
riot only militiary questions but also in 
issues concerning armed forces policy. 
Helmut Schmidt distrusts the parti- 
cularism of the branches of lire armed 
forces. 

Making the three general staffs indepen- 
dent of tile Defence Ministry by changing 
th?m into separate commands, as the 
Christian Democrats and Christian 
Socialists recommended, would be 
contrary to Sphmidl’s political aim of 
creating strong leadership with a central 
planning, body and strenthening the 
Minister’s power to. command the armed 
forces. 

•.The precedence given to military 
commands above administrative orders, 
and the autonomy of the Army in face of 
civil armed forces administration should 
obviously make the organisation not only 
more efficient b(it also cheaper to run. 

For the first time there iso prospect of 
a gehcral revision of the whole organisa- 
tion. The Army cannot be reorganised 
without a simplification and suvings in 
administration. This view seems to bo 
gaining ground among the political leader- 
ship of the Minis! ry. ■ • . Lot liar Rue hi 

(l)ll-: Wl-LT, 26 iHiiuno- 1970) 

!»' '' • -• '• ' ... *. • -I • 

’» • • • ' : • -I n; . 

Test case gives 
workers important 
right 

• . “ • . • • 1 . l 

W orkers frofa. 1 Common , Market 
conn tries whp have to interrupt 
their stay in tho Federal Republic to fulfil 
sorvico duties in their homeland etui 
demand that lime spent In service be 
reckoned with the time spent with their 
' firm. : Federal,; Republic ' workers already 
have this right: 

This was the verdict of a test case at the 
< Federal labour Court at Kassel. The basis 
for the docision is the Common Market 
Treaty in which the rights of employees 
are based on freedom and discrimination 
based. Qn, nationality Js forbidden. ■ : . 

I I (SUddouUpJiB Z^Kuns. 27jnnvary 1.970) 
.1 -v. .-■■•hc.-i ’ ' iti i.- • 


Professional trainin' 
should replace 
military tradition 


GOVERNMENT 


The ups and downs of 
the first hundred days 


but act a lot more. ’• Looking at the 

Hnving said this, the lieutenant ti| ^llly Brandt’s giv 
“Minister, be careful that' people A* orjly tlie Impetus 


I n taking stock of Bundcsv- . I , 

problems Defence Minister Heb li 1 

f™.h. id ‘ vranlcd 10 hC8r .. ' I 

lie cannot complniu on that see b” . : . i 

Young oll'iccrs, both commission^ * 

not'lVlng. l, 1 Schi l i?iuT d wil/^'now Kk " er since Delano Roosevelt 

dimeumos of .uo po, ! te^ t ^r e , 9 3 ra d d ,t p ra ™ is is e to u 2 r a 

Tim erti.i i -#»»•« mass unemployment problems within the 

n'l s e ol f lcrs ^ncctat.°ns tre nrst hun dmd days it has been normal 

by w practice to consider the first hundred 

congress in the Cologne suburb orh days 0 f a new government as a sort pf 

aking a Bundestag document from! yardstick for their complete performance, 
pocket, he referred to n quote madcl . ... ... 

SPD member Helmut Schmidt who v • Of course this yardStick ls mkihly falSei' 
during a debate that Gerhard Scfufo In the first flush of power many govem- 
tiich Minister of Defence, should 1 ihents record initial successes!' But this 
speak so much about the armed fa liabit can no longer be altered. • 
but act a lot more. ' Looking at tlie first Hiitidred ^ 1 days of 

Hnving said this, the lieu tenant tij ^llly Brandt’sg<^ riot 

“Minister, be careful that' people L oqly tlie Impetus following tlie forniatidn 
make the same accu s:i lions of ]t of tlie .government biit also the first low 
Schmidt’s answer was diplomatic. Firt point. To simplify the issue, the 1 govern- 
all he must attend (0 the problems ofl ment has had fifty, days up and fifty days 
soldiers. When he had finished tit down, "j 

stock of the situation in Jhne hew* when '.the Brandt government, took 
act, he said. ' office on 22. October. 1969 it received, an 

Army Commander General Scb unusually ' large amount of. ; premature 
mus also be loarnmg a lot horn lab laurcls> In spite 0 f Its narrow majority it 
slock of spcciul armed forces conp« mo ^ 0 f th^, pountjry’s pres^.pq Its 
assembled to discuss the situation. . ojhh " , 

The more advanced the stock-tab ^ 1 : ‘ V : . , 1 ’ .V' 

becomes the clearer it becomes that an .! Brandt’s ^' person^! ‘^opulaMy gfdw 
leadership was obviously bndly infoni rkpidlj/ And countries 1 .abroad showed 
of the spirit and the problems oil much goodwiN at thbfirst radlcal trdnsfef 
soldiers when they produced their cond Of poWeHA the Federal Republic. ’ 
versial army study on inner lcudersb 1 ‘J ‘ *' ' ‘ ' :u 1 

And this cannot bo concealed bvlnsptc Brandt 'acted' •■lniuied lately and ’ Wo 
General dc Malzlerf*! atntbni*/flk \ty) measures won him world-w,de sympathy: 
situation has improved in the pa*. He rbvalufed' the' Atark and sighedThe 
Jn0nl j is " nuclear' non-p rollfetatl oh "treaty. -Bbth 

Noiwcbin'mllJibliod and ’ jA «'.P» were bnlytho fulfilmertt of davelop. 
coiniuissiohed r officcfs paint a cdnipldl 1 ? enl ®. t . ia . had lon S ,bee n plBnned ; 'But 
normal picW'ro of Hie armed fofes'te •«» ! OtobOan 'DemoomU land 'CMitlan 
Icndcrahip. 'They are 1 mutated Wilh.t obalmately., postponed 

series bf disciplinary ruoasnter takcii' JliMe. tneSMUro^ ..belidvingi. wrbn^yt tta 
Hll now. The rclailonsltlp heteMI '. hil, could cbst aiem.. voter Jrt the elec 

young and non-commisskmed ofnepr Hons.,,. • • . • . 

on lire wiiolc good. Tills is (lac parlkd ■ ■ • ■ 11 • ; 1,11 " ' " 

ly to tlie fact that each group depenifti r 1 : ' ■ 1 : 1 1 ‘ : i) 

the other. 


the other. 

. Tlie young so,ldi?rs reject emphatic^ 
return, to the old soldfrr’s lifoi Dciw*! 
arc made for objectivity fa the profpj 
and ; objective ; recruitment for * 
profession and npt a class of soldis^ 


1 1 1 . '■ ' j;- 1 ; ;;; . ■ At i. : - ... - i t: . .. , 

: - :ii ^ . “•••: ''".'No moire' confusion in ' . 

i iik-.k- ,t!: ... aiu.jr i vi-v.,-..,; 


• 'ii f; ■i-nS'n,. • -I i , - '-piTiM.: 
■ ''in -j . ■<?■( - jt i; . ..I i i| . 


orces 


' adopted. .The , party’s ! aimed fprcAs 

mJM .Pfner two brapchw.: pf the Armed programme' envisaged the commanders 
forces,wiU receive orders oply from thplr and .thejr branch ,of the. armed forces 
Commanders-. Passing op orders will thus t^ken completely but of the sphere of (lie 
be simplified and the structure .WflJ Defence Ministry; • : . ' ; * 

fpr .^ e S 0ji i Schniidt'ihas ippde it clear that he wllj 
wffha 1 ^ ec ] {. e,ain al1 responsibility for the armed 

lrT ^ “ Uend ^ orce ^ incJucJing , the, possibility of 

■ su P? I J 1 ^ 0r ?; : mor 9 exerting his influence on them at any 
painstakingly ...asippper .work must aufo- time.- 

malibbllri Hahraasa 1 ■ ■ ■ / "I • 


The greatest success in the initial fifty 
days was the Common Market summit 
conference in The Hague, due not least to 
Brandt's self-confident appearance and 
his persistent efforts to make France 
discuss the issue of British entry into tho 
Community. 

Brandt had not only made his way 
among the ranks of European heads of 
government at the first attempt, ho had 
also freed liimself of tho domination of 
French, politics that his predecessor Kurt 
Georg Kiesingcr had always submitted to 
and has substantially increased the weight 
of this country’s influence in the Euro- 
pean Community. - 

The magnitude of, this performance. can 
best be measured from French attempts 
to take back, as.many.ofitlie, pledges made 
at The Hague as possible ior to allow them 
to; die a> natural , death by placing diffU 
culties in the way. Brandt will need all, his 
persistence to keep the European. train. iq 
motion, regardless of the brpkcs thqt ,the 
French are, trying to apply. 

Talks with Mbscpw were started qnd 
(tie ' way wAs paved, for discussions with 
Poland. Ati'd this is where the difficulties 
bbkan. The .govcriirnefit had, no illusions! 
when it embarked on (ts round of talk's in 


bA^n. The .government had, no illusions 
when it emba>kfe'd oq (ts rouqd of talks i q 
Moscow hut according to what has leaked 
oil t " the problems- ’'are'* gfeatA r than 
expected. • • 

in three (rounds : bf talks with Foreign 
Minister Gromykb''- ambassador Allardt 
has not yet been able tb get On to the'tbpfo 
of renunciation of 'force. Preliminary 
questions are still > beirlgi discussed. 
Moscow wishes -to link) itliese "With 
renunciation of force and they actually 
contain., ail . laims of - Soviet ' policy ■ on 
Germany -“nthd recognition of -frontiers 
arid the Getman • Democratic - Republ ic. •> 

,: Thb decline in thd ajctprbf dofabstlc 
polity 1 was * speeded up 1 ' by 1 the* luckless 
Labour Minister 1 Waltei" ,l, Arondt' Who 
promised 'pensioners a' Christmas bonuA of 
fifty Marks 1 without' bounding 'olit tho 
Chancellor or the Minister of FiriAiice and 




The pace of the first hundred Hays 

.'i imI i >■ • ,'i. m (C art uolH Klqus P Icier t/ 1 


he Chancellor’s OtTice has taken 
precau tionsi i for., the, future- To jtepd 
all speculation^, qn the. sense iOr 


1 ;' C 6 rnpifny !, 6 r battalion commanders. had 
trouble 1 in seeing to. all the pApet workf A 
IftWe part of their time wAs taken' up' with 
' this-' instead lOfiwifh direction- and- supee 
v|slbii : ‘bf ttairiing whidh' is ' far more 



i" h j ' " t r-r»~ nuiu- lime. : . 

jf i GDU .■ ireconurjendations had< been ■ '(FrankqirutRundschau.aa j ?nu « y 1970 ) 


had to Witlidraw Iiis, offer, ' not long 
afterwards. A little later he was able to 
offer Instead the abolition of pensioners’ 
tontributions: to sickness Insurance that 
was worth to most of-them more than the 
one payment of fifty MArks. But psychd' 
logical damage' was considerable and lias 
still not been completely rectified. : 

Kafl ! Schiller- 'h'as "not 1 Managed to 
presb'rit ■' A ' conviritirtg: "adcount of oui 1 
etonOjhifc ’CO'ufsel 1 Within ' the space of a 
few days he md ^tate* Secretary Arndt 
Contradicted ’ tlVemselvOs’ Iti 


iiiblid. The 
one 1 spikb of taplttg do Wit 1 tho econo 1 
my. the other of growth and full entploy 1 

.forced! the 


ment* (The [trade .programme .forced! the 
government to ( ,iewcge..,oii. .ifs , second 
promise . and .PQ s lPPt\o plans, to .double the 
fa^rfrae . , elip.waqce, , far , employees, .gpd 
abpllsli supplementary pnyiiients. ... 

The smaller ; of the tWQ coaljtion 
partners, the Free pemqcratSj.v ore also 
ciUiklnk coWdohV. The cbh'»rvative code of 
the did pdrty ’ ^Idftdfeysli Ip 1 grouped ^ ^atotntd 
EVlgli . McndC 1 Wdqt ■ to r lidlt thti ttarty’i 
kWlhg IhA left: TltlAi has leu 16 “Art 

Open 1 dlnsh 'th'At ' Could' rfeitiU' iA Ihe'FDP 
falling undor tho 'five' 'per cent m! tilth uih 
and engineer A crisis fdr the coalition^ The 
North, Rhlne-Westphalia elections on L4 

.■I ,1 I. , ...|l ... 1 . • - f.| • .; 1. 1 • ;i • |T> I }••!. 


,'j. -. . (Cartooiu Klqus PlolArt/lnUusirlekuriae) 

June can blso decide the -fate of the 
coalition in Borin. - ' 

’ Brandt's 1 ; govern mdil t was - quickly 
forced into action in’ Cerman 'policyd 
Ulbrlfcht’s draft ‘-treaty lead to- an offer Of 
talks being made to-East Berlin. But this 
is now sO unwelcohie to Ulbricht that he 
would like best to postpone (f Indefinitely. : 

The Federal gd^erli rtient had fa, start on 
a process for which they ' Woiild have 
pni ferred ’ nioj-c ti me . 1 It With dre w f rom 
traditional positions in Gcrn^ivpolicy, 
from the 1 wish thiriking'bf the fifties 
and accepted the facts. Yliefo was nb talk 
ofreuiiification ‘lit Brand t’rf policy state- 
ment pf 28 October, he did not mention 
thc' sulvj&ct At ; aU.' Tudu</' ,he Is already 
saying 1 ill ' public" 't'hnt , r ! ei)nificatiori wjll 


saying ' iii ' pii bile" 'that ‘r^bnlfication wjll 

riot' WkejpldccV 

" U Hiayf'bc A’ sign of'jltilitical maturity 
that' the ‘ heoplc of this botuWTy "hbvc hot 
.^rodiiccy'il 'Atornl' of prd tcil 'arid 'hidMnb* 
lltiH!' 1 BiVt 1 htfarVy citizens \Wil dbubtidssly 1 


be unnblc to keep un with the speAd' of 
this dettelottiiieiYt:' Tliiit Will 'cost Voles 
nqd Ayiii'palhy." rt 1 7 , : ' 

7 'At 1 the 1 end Of Its 1 fi^L 1 hundred days 
Brandi's govern tWchi COil Id ido with some 
following wind. Robert Meinhunlt \ \ ! 

1 1 '' r (Hh’ii JelsIiiaVl, i7;Jnhunry 1970) 


■ • • i i !-■##. ii .'/ 4 i ■ 1 1 


■ . r. •• j- 

Governement needs a replacement 


llor's Office In ,a beautiful 


-I !■ I 1 1 ■ it -H ' 


and ; objpBtivc ; recruitment for- jiqpsenspipf.e.new s?at.pjf government; it 
profession and npt a class of soldis^ has issued a; ,64- page document; explaining 
could only be described asqi’iigenwk Why, there, must be l a.,repl£c?jgnent I for 
The, youtig officers are 1 pnammol^ , Palate ,?chautpburg, ;i built ^,[186,0, and 
their, opiniqq, tjiat fiic, career of ofik^ hpusing| M fi\e- 'Boiyr,, government . for ^he 
pot .sufficiently qpitp-datc and alW? past 21 years; \, u .-;v 

The believe that; after being I- rrhpsd' who 'know its creaking' halls* its 
lieutenant (three years) ,1he youpg jflppery Spiral staircases. tapAstried doors 
should. ihavp three: years service d £nd 'damp attic rooms (in both summe'r 
Army pnd then haye tlie. opporlunjl 1 .^d • wlfitef) " nibsf agree 1 with Horst 
studying- fpr, throe years in any .LhJrike’s- atatemenl that sometlting 'Will 
discipline. This course of study woulj® ji aVe fa hdppen'soon'. ' ■ ■ "J [ ■ 

with a, spell at university or trade j.. ..f i . . j 1 '.e. 

- Only then slipuit] he be forced to^ ; Bbordmatipn ^ntrp,i, 9 ,f (I Federal 

up his mind about becoming a, iP 0 ^-, -should .not. to ™ 

sional soldier and not, as isnowth««* i hfl vfag- what,, eyery,,; weMrected 
while, he, is still a young lieutenant. : prance; cpippany ; an^ . r ?V 9 fl . ev?ry 

- If: the : officer’s, career was . If 1 hiurticipal .pdministrafipp ihas - Tnodei;n 

organised in this way fae armed WPms.and,RonfeFpnqe i ,haUs : tl)Bt.en.cour r 
would be killing several birds with® 1 Age work. ... • 'n«| --n ; v 

.• ... ; /" Aefcordirig 1 ' t6- ,, th'e ^dVerhMArtt' fitate- 

J . The promise of a general profes^' ment, IK6 GhanCeildt-’S ’ Office must be 
training at the end of activity ^ fonctioMn’f th'd'FederM goVerhnifeitt is to 
lieutenant would attract more youjjSJ: satisfy 'thb intreSsl'rtg . demands pf the 

? le thpn has been tho case up fa 1 * seven tibs,' "The" Federal Chancellor 1 can 
heir decision to become 1 carry oiit his tasks only if there is a 

wopld put an. end to the, shortage of )«* Suitable, 1 funoiiOnal office at his disposal, 
officera. . j ; tn^its- pfose'nt bbhdUloft -the!' ^dhencellor's 

. 2. The naturally smaller numw >pmcb is not equal to 'demands made bn 1 b 
posts From captain upwards wouiA modern administrative and government 
form such a great bottleneck a s j 1 * building. I; - • 

officers would return to civilian Job*-" ' Thf, planned new building will nof only 

a^rri; ' p - ' ^ *<&■}** extended but a sensible arrangement 

•. 3 * Tlle fluabty of seiuor, officers ^. ?of offices wiU CTeate work | n J cations 
nse. ■ : ' 

(HandvbblaU, 2b JnnoaO 


for the Palais Schaumburg 

Vf\ l . 'in:* I * I .."j 


( thgt,dp npt make .fop piany d?man,<fs on 

time. ‘ ,([ [,,. 

• Reconstructing jfh? , present building 
Avopld be i portly, wq.vfq npt. \n the, long 
,run curb,, the. defects that||hayp.|beep 
.esiabljshed ... 

.demands. r \ -. V- .i .. ' ••••, 

But the heart of the, present Chancel- 
lors Office, , the historic . Palais Schauny 
burg, will be' preserved,^ It, will , in. future 
serve - as reception- rooms for. the Federal 
Clmnccllot so that he,* to use the words of 
-Horst* ■ Ehmke, the-. Minister ; of the 
Chancellors : Office, can continue there 
'the- tradition '-'founded- by. Chancellor 
Adenauer. »'• '• 1 ••- j --. ■ • 

; Expansion Is considered 1 necessary in 
the ChahAellbr’s Office becatise seveial 
hiew departments will have to' be accom- 
modated : thelre. ThAse' departments 
became necessary' when the Office took 
over some of the functions' formerly 
'Carried out’ by the ^undAsrAt Ministry 
After the Brandt-Scheej; government was 
fprmed. Since Brandt and Ehmke moved 
irt the Office has acted to Coordinate the 
rriaih functions in education, sdcial wel- 
fare, the ecdnomic and 1 sociological 
SphereS. : ' ' lt ' 


: .* If**.. ; I. ;1 '• •M- . -• n 

. I ..in-' I . •ni;'l l.-i'; .•»!■- ' 

■ i, m- I*. .ii ' i • •• ; . • 1 1 ■ ■ r " / ;-ir|. 

„ Even .wlieftiKuit .(jJeqigiKiesihger W In 
-Office , i? .Federal /[Construct fan. Bureau 
. [pQnifliipsi.qned ito, ,vork : .out.plaos ,for 
extending ,|tbe . reception I , rooqu , at ; the 
jEhancelloj-siOffice..:.<jii; .''i . j... 

prelliqlnary Wh' Jiad^'flltei'ciy 
developed into, firm plans by,, the, jim? tlie 
j( 9 ?v gpyemqyent toqk; office^ JBut ,ijbe nfV 
flusters flid not) agrep ■tq. 1 the l plans.,')ribp 
pamphlet states that the Federal, gqVqm* 


ipept dealt fae subject la several 
Cabihet .'se^obs' and ' tonsldefad ’ 1 Ihe 
submitted pla)rts fd be 'll peconjOrnlc. " ' j ' | J;' 

u -Ehmke . then commissioned newiiplatis 
and , tirrife and Motion studies for . the 
Chancellor's' Office, a thing . that Is i not 
usual in : public . administration but < has 
proved itself in "large-scale enterprises 
under modern management. ( ■> • i..v 

The Bundestag wfll be able fo Wth^e 
studies dining consul tptioiis On the f 970 
Budget fa fae next few nionths When it 
will consider Brandt’s construction ‘plzihs 
abd itiake the ffaal decision. '! , 1 1 . . 

For 1970 1h6 Bundestag would have to 
allo\v planning expenditure totalling- One 
'million Maiks/ -The 1 costs of budding the 


Construction cqstS; will already,' be 
included doiettsentfal expenditure figures of 
the - Bonn; jministries- that, are showing 
an astonishing -rise.' Last y earls ..total of 
188 million Will rise to -224 niilliorii tfiis 
year 1 and tcover 253 million hbxtyear/Irt 
, 1972, tlieiyear. of the 'Olympic Games, It 
! will rise - tq 273 miltion and in 1973, the 
■final year <ofl tho 'pew. mid-term financial 
plannlrigjto 294 millions, ii. j . -• 1 :U * 1 

tt 'Itf hilt only the Chancellor who has 
; (fanStructfoi\"plariS. The Federal President 
•IS 1 sddiri tb‘ ‘have ' VnodSrii ' bffict behind 
Til W! J ; At' 1 f prefcent' 1 1 the 1 ; ’ govetmrten t> 1 'is 
166klilk for a hilt^bfa sltd'ln Bohn: There 
Is ttUfi " Of ■ d f SlW Oft ' ; 520 1 feet ' high 

■ Vehusbeig plateau' overlooking i 'the 
1 governme nt - area' of Bonn as w£Q as . the 
‘Rhine valley . Wjth the island of Nonnen- 
: Averth, and the mountainous Siebengebirge 
— .an area that Alexander. von Humboldt 
once. included, in the seven most beautiful 
in' the.- world.- ; ... :.! ' •- 

r Budget estimates for the next few years 
show that At: least the expenditure on 1 the 
President’s Office lias -already been 
(planned. »'!- ■•* • , 

The '1969 figure of five million will rise 
to 7.7 million by 1973, the. year, when 
discussions as to the next Federal 
President begin. , - 

'i Kar^fJelnz von den Driesth 
. ■- c Frankfurt MNeuBp/e^ 26 January 1970) 


THE GERMAN TRIBUNE 


FILMS 



Cinemas greet a new generation 

of filmgoers 


W ho still goes to the cinema today? 

This rhetorical question has be- 
come common. In the last few years 
people have said often and emphatically 
that cinema is dying. 

But prophets of doom must actually 
wonder why there is still n 200-yard long, 
six-deep queue outside a large Paris cine- 
ma waiting to see the original version of 
Sain Peckinpah's Wild Bunch several 
weeks after Its premiere there. 

Another source of wonder to them 
must be the springing up of new cinemas 
ill large cities in the country. These 
immediately have a firm audience. 

And then relatively exacting films such 
as Lindsay Anderson's If or Godard's 
Pierrot le Fott prove to be box office 
successes. Nobody in the “golden" fifties 
could have prophesied that. 

When people talk of a film crisis they 
mean first and foremost the economic 
crisis of the traditional film industry 
whose products are not so much in 
demand as ten or twenty years ago. 
Because of that these films have been 
adapted for television in the United Sta- 
tes for the past fifteen years. 

It is well-known that many films worth 
seeing do not get to be shown at cinemas. 
Most of them can be spen on the tele- 
vision screen. AH in all, there can be no 
talk of an ominous artistic crisis in the film 
industry. 

Those who talk of a crisis of the theatre 
on the other hand mean the artistic crisis 
of an institution that receives annua! 
subsidies of hundreds of millions of 

retains. This dififerinde is all too frequent- 
ly ignored. 

Economically speaking, the film crisis 
affects cinemas or, to be more exact, tlfe 
cinema around the comer, cinemas in the 
suburbs of large cities and cinemas in small 
towns. 

City cinemas still nourish. They clearly 
skim off the cream because they are 
exerting more and more pull on an 
out-of-town audience with their film pre- 
mieres. 

this tendency is further favoured by 
the false distribution methods of cinema 
firms, especially those from America. A 
fijm like Bonnie and Clyde remains for 
such a- long time in city centre cinemas 
that by- the time it reaches oineniasin'the 
suburbs and the small towns there Is only 
a small audience left to go and see it. , 
There are always typical city successes 
like Hiroshima; mon amour or, more 
recently, Bullitt. These. appeal to a city 
audience more than to people In the 
country who place Ruth Leuwerik and 
O.W. Fischer at the top of their list. 

But, tpday distributors generally tend to 
ignore the. smaller cinemas in the suburbs 
and small • towns. The trend towards 
urbanisation cannot be denied but it ipust 
surely be . a mistake to forego the po- 
tential film public, for suburb cinemas. 

The scant attention paid to perfor- 
mances for minors must also be consider- 
ed as a serious mistake. These proved to 
be great successes when they were put on 
aiid announcements were made in some 
schools. One reason is that the normal 
cinema fare hardly has anything suitable 
for under-slxteens. On days when, they 
did show films for under six teens some 
■cinemas had their best takings. - • • . 

The cinemas around the comer are still 
facing a serious crisis -but in spile of 
contrary reports the cinema I is not yet 
dead. ’ . 1 

A change in the structure of the cinema 
audience can however be confirmed. The 
urbanisation already mentioned is only 


one aspect. Audiences are also becoming 
younger. American investigations and 
careful observation of cinema queues in 
tills country show that it is young people 
between sixteen and thirty who make up 
the largest part of the cinema audience. 
This group can indeed be considered as 
regulars. 

Older people do not treat a visit to the 
cinema as matter of fact. For them it is 
an event that has to be carefully planned 
and a whole evening is specially set aside. 

The young on the oilier hand go along 
to the cinema quite casually. They form 
groups with friends who believe that 
television is identical witli monotony and 
bad taste. Or they go alone, attracted by 
the title, the advertisements outside or 
the promise of a star name such as Gary 
Cooper or Burt Lancaster. Or they go 
with their girlfriend who cannot for the 
life of her work up much enthusiasm for 
an evening watching television together. 
Or they go as married couples who have a 
certain sense of venture and do not want 
to stay at home surrounded by familiar 
objects. 

This generation of fdm-goers suffers no 
conflict of cultural interests. They do not 
differentiate between an evening at the 
ballet, buying a pop-record, an interesting 
new book, a visit to a beat club or going 
to the dribftftj. 

Cinemas exclusively showing art films 
no longer have n fixed image in their eyes 
(the policy of Atlas distributors would 
find little approval today). Tiie elite idea 
practised here has been ruined. A mixture 
of films are now offered. 

Luxurious like boxes whore the film- 
goer cun smoke and plush armchairs are 
not a decisive factor in attracting people to 
the cinema. It is the individual film that 


P rime films, long popular as cinema 
entertainment, have large cities as 
their background. New Yorkand Chicago 
have this privilege, as do London, 
especially Soho, and Paris. From Naples 
and Vienna we get the small-time crook 
and local colour. 

Does the Federal Republic remain vir- 
! tuous and well-behaved? Berlin’s crime 
syndicates! have died out. Frankfurt Is 
not a film centre and the inhabitants of 
Munich are affectionate ruffians but not 
criminals. 

..Then several.years aeo the film indiistrv 


Reeperbahn, the Crosse Freiheit and Her- 
bertstrasse? 1 1 . . 

. But life is only luke-wann. Drug smug- 
gling does not flourish here as in Chicago 
and neither do safe-breaking and robbery; 
All there is amounts to legal prostitution 
and illegal, though tolerated, living off 
immoral e&rnings. Who would think that 
that offers enough material for a crime 
film? Though you .only. have to go a little 
way beyond the bounds of legality and 
one terror follows on the other, 
r One more product of the series of St 
Pauli films cap now be seen. A consumer 
producer and two bid hands at this sort 
of script have pieced it together. Tre- 
bitseh, LQddecke and Zeitler call their 
latest work The Angel of St Pauli. 

Of course at the beginning we see the 
great, affectionate image of Hamburg — a 


THEATRE 


counts and, to a certain extent the 
standard generally offered by the cinema 
concerned. 

This new film public is selective. That 
can be seen on Monday evenings when 
late night showings are often badly pa- 
tronised - to a point of catastrophe - 
because there is always n good film on 
television. 

Taking are normally belter oil a Tues- 
day but this again is true only for 
city-centre cinemas who can afford to 
have a late-night showing. In small towns 
late-night showings have to compete with 
television. 

In individual cases television can lead to 
a wider popularity of certain producers 
who started in this medium before trans- 
ferring to the film industry. One in ten 
people today should know at least the 
name of Howard Hawks whereas nobody 
had ever heard of him before. 

Many of the lesser known films by 
Alfred Hitchcock are now attracting (he 
film audience after this country’s second 
television channel ZDF honoured the 
producer’s seventieth birthday and 
brought his films, though not always the 
best, into millionsof homes. 

Experience has shown that the public 
welcomes repeat showings. There is still 
no decline in the numbers of people who 
want to see a film they have missed on 
the first time round. 

Cinema owners huve three barriers to 
overcome before they can satisfy this 
demand. Firstly, licences of this sum of 
..film often run out very quickly. Second- 
ly, the sight of faded advertising material 
outside the cinema frightens off many 
potential film-goers and new photographs 
would be too expensive for the sninll 
distributor. Thirdly, Important or histori- 
cally interesting repeal showings gel loo 
Ultle attention in the local and national 
press. Film-goers do nut receive sufficient 
information. . 

The years have produced a myth about 
cinema attendances in university towns. 


Another St Pauli 
film 


glimpse at the fish market, the harbour 
and the ships. 

hi between come the tried and. trusty 
scenes - night clubs, a wrestling ring, a 
bowling alley, a harbour warehouse, a 
scrapyard and general hubbub. The rest 
takes place in the studio. Here it is that 
the brothel and bars are constructed. One 
production must inherit the props or its 
successors' and by now they are so dilapi- 
dated that they can hardly be distinguish- 
ed from the real thing. . 

it is quite easy to make a St Pauli film 
as long as all the elements are known that 
must be a part of iu Prostitution and the 
commercial exploitation of sex must 
stand at the top of flic list and film-mak- 
ers proudly show their knowledge of all 
the variations. Here we get something for 
the masochist, now something for de- 
votees of group sex and a little eroticism 
worked in. , 

Erotic stimuli are supplemented further 
by stripleasers and scenes of everything 
i that belongs to this sort of atmosphere - 
customers drinking ohampagne, views of a 
cloakroom attendant , and a doorman 
: enticing passers-by to come in.. . . 

So that the film can have sonic action 


Peter Weiss’s new play 
‘Trotsky in Exile’ 


10 February 1970- No.4 

No. 409 - 10 Februaiy 1970 

It was claimed that the level of film" 

the attendance was helped along K 

presence of thousands of students ! TUCATDP 
cultural tastes. ■ ■ nCMI nC 

Hul lliis mistaken opinion isconin a ■ 1 » • 

ed by experience. Of course it j Sf ‘ Ppfpf \X/p|CC 

here that Godard’s I.e CaiSavoir W 
shown with great success. 11111% * 

Unions heroes of this country’s siuit I Lr TT 1 

are - not (’lark Gable, Irroll Fta AJUJtMVy . 

Alan Ladd bill Jean-Paul Belmondo, 

Eddie Constantine. 

When the summer pause Corn JR olf Hochh “ ,h has n °' us , t,,e 
was abolished some years J P lsasure of 3 ncw , play f ° r a lo .‘', g 
showed that audienees did S t !™ e ', Bu, 1 we , ca , n cons< | le T? VM h 
except of course duriu s heat U,0u * t * ha * ° ne P lay ll l at has „ b “ n 

Whereas rest, mraiils confirm ta e , * rit “ n could havc con, ° fr0m H ° d ” 

tnuiuh fb jhe play in question was in fact written 

L Peter Weiss and is called, Trotzky im 

coiiiplum of a decline m atlciriwnav/1 iTratskv in Exilol 

certain’ex tent s , Rl »« "»'*«“ ‘fact who is to iy that Rolf Hoch- 
cer nut extent attractive. Tlieping., iut |, p eler Weiss have not put their 

oflliecincma audience are young pe, lejl( ] s toS ctli0T and collaborated in the 
d0 “ l,ava l0 , nm “ '‘“^dramatic underground’ Signs of this 
“ dl crcnl relallo " sl “P toroseem abundant, 
than the older generation. The inventor of artistically speaking 

The following is perhaps the nhighly revolutionary revue parables such 
important characteristic of the newaas MaratjSade, and the creator of a 
ration of cinema-goers. They usually'^ poetically convincing documentary style, 
pairs or larger groups to the cinemijas in Die Ermit thing has, in this new play, 
those going to watch the falsely ti gone back on his own discoveries, 
sex education films produced i He has started from scratch again, 
harmless pornography wave under Scratch equalling Hochhuth, so to speak, 
motto of “Make love more beaulifuT The character he has chosen, who stands 
normally alone and almost wittiom out from his period of history like a sore 
cop* ion over thirty. For them the fil:thumb, is Trotsky. But it could equally 
only a continuation of illustrated ©have been Churchill or Goebbels. 
zincs in a different medium. They. Like Hochhuth Weiss has taken his 
certainly not the cinema public oficharacter and painted him against the 
seventies. grain, against the grain of orthodox 

Meanwhile it is dawning on this ^Marxism, 
try’s film companies that the nornci ,Th e exercise borders on madness as m 
phy boom and the lime of loose gfoHochhuth’s Der Stellvertreter or Soldo- 
Hie cinema lias lead to a clear History is rewritten Leon Trotsky, 

prestige among the public stlU burdened with Stalin s terrible curse, 

Intense market research and i,uW s shown as won over to the ranks of the 
discontent at watching television iPh^ 0S °pbical brains and convincing 
piohuhly bring new film-goers ^tlier- figures of the poor New Left and 

cinema made into a use ' u ‘ ideological payload. 

ril , ■ "*’ *, ■ *•{ ■ * ■ • .'It was said recently that Peter Weiss 

tut .1, O’uuuo'va Xt.m.lurd pvoa r« ommend e d Soviet Russian theatre 
not wailed and nun hot « a whop* allow this play about the 

ol Hints on the same theme relyu,g«i f prop | lf . t orperpe H tu i revo lutlon 

fume ut the original. , 0 ge performed in Moscow. 

It Is lip to cinema owners to attffiU But K tlu Soviets werc not going t0 al | ow 


THE GERMAN TRIBUNE 


distributors .sis. A eiiicina r»«t lt t0 pIaaae a ‘ Gemum dramaliat> who 
lines always has a fixed group of ^‘himself tends to hover between the left- 


Unfortunatcly the play's director. Herr 
Buckwitz, was not blessed with the inspi- 
ration of the muses and could do notliing 
to raise Trotzky ini Exil to greater 
heights. He contented himself with pro- 
ducing a play that conforms with the 
usual norms of the theatre, naturalism 
behind masks, make-up and strict control 
of the voice levels of his actors. 

Buckwitz knows his preferred methods 
and puls them into practice and that is 
virtually the end of it. 

But, as I have already said, Weiss' play 
has little to do with what might be called 
theatrical art. 

On this point I will allows myself one 
last comparison with the works of Rolf 
Hochhuth. Like the author of Der Stell- 
vertreter Peter Weiss has entered into 
battle with the material on hand and 
found himself at odds with his sources. 

Not only does Weiss follow all the 
highways and byways of Trotsky’s bio- 
graphy. He also shows the strategy of 
revolution through the thousand mirrors 
of the colossal depiction of the October 
Revolution. On the stage there is a true 
throng of heroes. 

Chief among these is Lenin. In fact the 
robot of the Revolution really deserves to 
have his name in the title role. However, 
in the Diisseldorf performance Kurt Beck 
in a grinning mask played Trotsky into 



A scene from Weiss's play about Leon Trotsky 


second place with his cold effectual rhe- 
toric. Richard MUnch put over the sen- 
tences whose content was very difficult 

Weiss attempted to put several aspects 
of the Dada era on the stage, including 
that of Andrd Breton. 

In tliis historical collage the drollest 
ideas are shown in the simulated docu- 
mentation of contemporary history. For 
instance there is some doubt about 
whether men like Trotsky, Lenin and 
Radek would really find the right word for 
the right moment. The way they speak In 
Weiss’ play is similar to the effect of plastic 
flowers — real and false at the same time. 


Exhibition of schizophrenics’ art 
in Hanover 


tin i wi -i. i . i f Jiimun ’’wing camps. 

— ... Tliis is oner. of the two stools between 

which Weiss has fallen with his Trotsky 

direct boxing 1 ' sUokcs^to mass 5 On other stool there sit the young 
T rw neon1n 8 h fl i^ 7n .ii! „ i n foi leftwingers. They too have let the dra- 
badl^ ihert" matist know What they think of his 

,hL lhe J n iK revolutionary theatre: not much! 

Without thnt pi Students from Diisseldorf 8 Art Aca- 

film i dSC it dem y ruined the dress rehearsal and stood 

mrdMaV * 81 * e front of the,, stage performing 

c .^-tK s l k° "-tS 

pun « d ° -***« *»« 

course ail | < L A similar reacton was forthcoming 

dead iust to sluiw^haY SS faced® ^ om the P 8eudo revolutionary budding 

candied a Icar ovc" h r bo y' ^ ^ ^. rmed *■ that 

Tlip mnrrloror r.r i« nni flu 1 w h at he was puttmgon the new stage was 

thPidarTo^pimps^- 0 murder 5 is ^ * 

student’s beard jJst to show life p*’ SfM* ° f c ° mn ?. q h ist «? theoreticians 
?c\hnga°n l ypn^oH d ,inf P ^ ^ : 

r ,U / C Tfdlt P^er WeUsliai conceived his Trotsky 
And /foL K P n PCak J11 2 “ a drama on differing levels of 

fnrln! boW SWCflr words nm time » but the whole effect is unartistic. 
forgotten. Individual scenes appear as large. 

How many St Pauli films have * clumsy, unmpdelled blocks , of time: 
been made? 1 wcnly-five, thirty- Trotsky in the Versliolensk penal colony, 
that s irrelevant, the main tiling * Trotsky together with Lenin in London, 
the producer has remembered W»J ' Trotsky on 26 October and so on and so 
scenes more than once. Then all htri® on. 

do is shuffle them and he wjj t .The biographical nature of the play 
enough material for a new St Pa' 1 " i gives the Impression of being forced and 
(si UiiiiAhii.u /it u.'Mi, iiiJdntt* 1 ® 11 artificial and in places it is painfully 

superficial. 


H anover’s medical school has put on 
exhibition more than ISO paintings 
and drawings done by scliizophrcnics, 
entitled “Imaginary Worlds and Organised 
Wanderings." The mentally sick as crea- 
tive artists is an ever fascinating thing. 

In the Federal Republic the artistic 
works of the mentally ill, as were shown 
in Hanover, fetch between 5,000 and 
10,000 Marks. Galleries and art fealers are 
constantly trying to acquire such works 
from relatives of the mentally Ul and 
authorities at mental homes. 

Most of the pictures on show at Han- 
over express in grim fashion the spiritual 
and mental torment of the mentally 
disturbed. 


The feeling of viewing a strange kind of 
deficiency in the portrayal of landscapes, 
people and interiors increases the intrinsic 
fasci na t ion of the pictures. 

It is astonishing how the patients who 
have often been ten or twenty years in 
the institute have taught themselves to 
use painting teclinlques to produce oil 
paintings or water colours and other 
kinds of canvasses to express their confus 
ed world to other people. 

Psychiatrists visiting the exhibition sug- 
gest that the works may be attempts to 
create in material form a critical situa- 
tion or endeavours to being back some 
sense and order to their lives by means of 
work. 




(Phuto: Lore Bur mb a ch) 

Trotzky im Exil shows in a handful of 
scenes the: sharp talons of an experienced 
theatrical prankster. 

The trial of the Trotskists is a masterly 
but gruesome shorthand notation of the 
law of the hanging judges within dictator- 
ships and not only Stalinist dictatorshops. 

Weiss succeeds in showing: the Inter- 
nationalism of Trotsky in a certain way 
and thus he leads on to the present day 
revolutionary scene in Indo-China and 
South America for instance. 

But the result is not convincing effec- 
tive theatre. Peter Weiss is In aesthetic 
exile. Wolfgang Ignee 

(CIIKTST UNO WI ; .LT, 23 luuunry 1970) 


Neurologist Dr G. Hofcr who lias for 
years been dealing with the art of seju/.d- 
phrcnics safi:' “There is 'often a"d rfvfiig ‘ 
force and a compulsion behind the artis- 
tic productivity of the schizophrenic. It is 
mostly triggered off by a new crisis in his 
illness forcing him to make use of one of 
the few modes of expression still available 
to III m." 

The Swiss schizophrenic nr list Adolf 
WOlfli has thirty pictures on exhibition 
showing the endless irrational life he has 
led. One incurable patient has twenty 
pictures on show depicting tragic lovers in 
history and his style is reminiscent of the 
early Picasso. Both are trying In an 
artistic way to find a new method of 
gaining control over life. 

Single pictures by these two artists who 
shown some years ago in Hamburg. But 
the collections of the psychiatrist Profes- 
sor W. Winkler from Giltersloh and DrH.' 
MQUer-Suur from G6tt ingen are on show 
to the public for the first time. The 
pen-and-ink drawings of a 50-year-old 
patient at Gottingen mental hospital are 
included. 

Many of his pictures contain a criticism 
of society which Dr Hofer says is scur- 
rilous ana contains mocking Irony. 

Professor Kisker said: “During medical 
examinations- we often supply mehtal 
patients with drawing materials and ask 
them to crate a picture so that we can tell 
-from the content of their work, the 
choice of colour, the style and particular- 
ly the brush strokes now to base our 
diagnosis and later draw therapeutic con- 
clusions about the nature of their spiri- 
tual suffering, In this way we have gra- 
dually managed to decipher the many 
related picture symbols and allegories 
which are in fact a secret Language.” 

Rudolf Stache 

(Hamburger Abendbla (1, 19 Jamiurji' 1970) 


Two examples of pictures painted by mental 
patients. On the loft 'Der Vatter Zohrn' by 
Adolf W6lfl and a self portrait by an unnamed 

artist. (Photos: Kntalng) 


THE GERMAN TRIBUNE 


„ No. 409 - 10 February 1970 this uckih 

>0 February 1970 -Nd^ 1 

Biedenkopfrepo® THE ECONOMY 

on workers* xhe way ahead for 
participation i so i a ted West Berlin 

I t lias been common knowledge! 

months in Bonn that workers’ pm 
pinion in management is one of thei 
points of the governing Social andfi 
Democratic (SPD/FDP) coalition. 

In the government policy slalom^ 

impreMive. But !t is vain 10 argue .oout 

0 £S^n n B d ^ d 

i- »(>fch “venties g»™ the new German capital a to d?g deep 

™ fc ’V lik , e ™i ne “ ° r ‘ lie , -S E the^Dertiners! the ‘aimw^i remalnto 
Since then the problem has been b ye ¥ s h of ^f^i^mneri^Tchv * wrote reduce the aid ( which in 1969 was around 

on a low flame in Bonn, which is uni “f bl f®J b , m!v n,hnrn AH thi^ tOono 3.500 million Marks) by its own efforts, 
standable enough in view of the FIf ^ ie historian Max Osborn. All this is long decade one of the ereat* 

activity on /oAcrf partie*!™ est willR 

sals. COrm,CQP ‘ a ° f dCn ' andS md W U whaMhe mud' vaunted iventies of “qua.e labour. The fermer capital 


■ SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY 

Eight per cent for public 
service workers 


',/■ . , vv ■ ;; 


A'v. '•/*.. ♦ . 

. * *v 

ER 


F our weeks of dispute over wage and 
salary increases for public service 
workers have come to and end. Interior 
Minister Genscher and public service and 
transport workers union leader Kluncker 
readied agreement on 15 January in 
Stuttgart. 

So there will be no strikes in public 
transport, power or refuse collection, all 
of which seemed likely as the New Year 
began and would have seriously affected 
everyone, dependent day by day as we 
are on local authority services. 

To this extent settlement of the dispute 
is of major importance for the entire 
population regardless of the terms and 
has been greeted with a sigh of relief. 

For the 1.2 million wage- and salary- 
earners directly involved the terms are 
important, though. They include a rise of 
eight per cent, and more in the case of 
the lower wage categories, for \vhom 
structural improvements and savings 
bonus features have been agreed. 

The savings bonus agreed to by the 
employers only after long hesitation is 
modest enough at a mere thirteen Marks a 
month and to the union's dismay is only 
to apply to earnings of less than 1,000 
Marks a month but it was sufficient for 
OTV, the public service workers union, 
which has persevered In its struggle for an 
Improvement of the lot .of the lower 
wage groups, to be able to consent to the 
terms. 

The savings bonus is important by 
virtue of its mere existence rather than by 
virtue of. the sum involved. Tills is the 
first time one lias been included In a wage 


and salary agreement for public service 
workers. 

The first steps in this direction were 
taken five years ago in the building trade 
but the idea did not catch on. Now that 
public service workers too are to be given 
a savings bonus the idea might well spread 
to wage negotiations in various sectors of 
private industry that are due to be held 
this year under the same difficult econo- 
mic conditions as the Stuttgart talks. 

Whether the mechanics of the savings 
bonus negotiated for public service 
workers is ideal or not is another matter. 
It is equally uncertain that the bonus 
represents a contribution towards econo- 
mic stabilisation, as the Federal govern- 
ment assumes. The state fs certainly not 
relieved of its obligation to ensure that 
the economy remains balanced. 

In the past the unions have fought 
tooth and nail against savings bonuses 
being included in Die negotiated percent- 
age increase, insisting on separate agree- 
ments. ■ 

OTV chairman Kluncker also declared 
not long ago that public service 
employees were not in a position to forgo . 
increased earnings in return for a savings 
bonus.. Due no doubt to force of circum- 
stances, he has now agreed to a package 
of this kind. 

The two sides in the negotiations have 
reached an agreement that for long ap- 
peared unlikely, but as the difference 
between the rise demanded and the rise 
offered had grown so minimal that tho 

employers and employees succumbed to 
the need to compromise. 

. lb sides had to make major conces- 
sions. The Federal government, which 
had stated that any concession further to 
its offer of 18 December would mean 


abandoning budgetary policy, cannot 
take the cash for the additional savings 
bonus out of thin air. 

The bonus will have to be accommo- 
dated in the budget and states and local 
authorities will also have to foot the bill, 
local authorities being the most seriously 
affected because they employ tho largest 
proportion of low-income workers who in 
the end were the last remaining bone of 
contention in the negotiations. 

OTV, whose membership includes most 
of die low earners, was accordingly a 
tougher nut to crack than DAG, the other 
union involved, and OTV chairman 
Kluncker was in the limelight as regards 
the struggle for the 100-Mark note. 

Since all wage- and salary-earners in the 
public service were paid an additional 300 
Marks for the months October to 
December 1969, representing an average 
additional hundred Marks a month, 
Kluncker had to insist on tliis sum being 
included in the wage agreement. 

His aim was to have the money paid In 
cash and without strings but in tliis be has 
not been entirely successful. Yet bearing 
in mind the thirteen-Mark savings bonus 
and the premiums paid out by the govern- 
ment on sums regularly saved by all 
Kluncker has, in a roundabout way, 
succeeded in gaining the 100-Mark note 
after all. 

The difficulties encountered in this 
round of negotiations have once more 
underlined the calamity of wages policy 
in the public service. The grotesque tug- 
of-war over 100 Marks would not have 
been necessary if minimum wages and 
salaries in the public sendee had borne 
any relation to the lower echelons of 
industrial earnings. 

The eight per cent offered in December 
would, together with structural improve- 
ments, then have sufficed and tho 
demand for an extra 100 Marks have been 
unnecessary. 

■‘ft: swiff change Is' needed In the public 
purse s wages policy to bring about an 
improvement In tho bad atmosphere 
among public service workers Hint in the 
final analysis rebounds on us all. 

liana Jorg Soltarf 

(STUlTQARTlill ZEITUNO, 16 Jonuury 1970) 


THE ECONOMY 


The way ahead for 
isolated West Berlin 




THE GERMAN TRIBUNE 










tators think. It is undeniable that Berlin's 
economic miracle has taken place behind 
the windshield of the boom in the Feder- 
al Republic. Without extensive fiscal in- 
jections the result would be far less 
impressive. But it is vain to argue about 
this. 







Spandau, one of Berlin's Industrial centres on the River Spree. In the background - 
Ernst Reuter power plant, (Photo: Landetblldslelle Berlin) 


sals. 

On 21 


wii -i January the Hledeiifo uua vv,, ‘“ , J r " u * -*** **- **"'-*■■ h at 

Commission submitted tn able development that the city has under- ' . P 

Brandt its ronort on worfcr/S cone in rewnt years continue? Or will it Twenty-one per cent of Berliners are 

rcpori on workers part? P tnrreHsInolv difficult to keeD over 65, wheras this figure in the Federal 

work. Publication of ^hc * winnrif pace widl economic developments in the Republic is only about 13 per cent. In the 

/ U u ; °‘. tl , ie commit Federal Renublic? sixties the number of working people 

Onposition^ hooc-f of 'hi' ’ Ti V I* Berlin falling behind or is there a dropped by about ten per cent to 

upposition hopes of being able ton . , intrinsic to the structure of 940,000. The statistics office reckons 

■ Vnir - WCdSC bclW "' «£ cKy Tat cTcreate so™ kind of that this figure will drop by a further 

coaiiuon partners. Berlin renaissance? 100,000 in the next ten years. 

nf nfnn°»r)lr«coi ,S - r F slc ^* e ^ h . y It must not be overlooked that from ; This is acting as a. break to growth, 

iniii.cfri - 1 ^'cssors headed by podia ^ mater j a i po | n t 0 f view, things are The Chamber of Commerce is now trying 
m„„,i '' Ku P , 1 ,ltfdcnko P'; going well for the people of Berlin today, to estimate the extent of the effect this 

„ f» r , r , c «, industrial P^'iThe prosperous sixties have brought back will have on Berlin, 
committee or the Christian Democro prosperity to the city .where it took If the results are unfavourable and the 
i-?- n i * conla ^ n t°° HNfc “Monger than elsewhere to shovel away the trend continues Berlin will have to reckon 
political dynamite to be grist to Ute id war debris and give a boost to the on its gross productivity lagging one pei 
° J| opposition CDU/CSU. ..economy. . , . ... , , cent behind the economic growth In the 

The tenor of the report is such that it!,. Business is flourishing in Berlin no less Federal Republic, 
considered useful even by the FDP, wli. jhan ip the Federal Republic and here in ‘ The basis of future expansion woulc 

IS SO impmli* In nil ■nnnlUii r\ r <Im uw .1 r. !i.l iL. n l>n A ■ , r ' ,'T ' ' . .11. ■!. . 


41111 « is what the much vaunted seventies of ltna ■«*»«* laDour - ojmer capnai 
BiedMh this century will bring. Will the favour- ““ no !on B er re B eneratc itself off its own 

™ akin HaiiAlnnmpnl tliflf fhp hflC Iindfif. Ufll. 


is so allergic to all mention of the wo( the former capital the newly acquired 
participation, and the reactions ol If riches are being put bn display amid great 
unions urc such that honied debate qvI pride. 

topic, in full swing only a year up Words cannot express as well as figures 
unlikely lo recur. the prosperity of Berlin. In the past ion 

Tho most important point tho KJ® f .years gross, productivity in Berlin has 
makes is lo reject workers’ participate ( nearly doubled from 12,000 million to 
in nunuigoment on equal terms v\A . 23,060 million Marks. Industrial turnover 
holding extended participation in oth has climbed from 8,500 million Marks to 
respects to be essential. ■ .15,200 million Marks. . The building pro- 

Flic right to a arcatcr s:iv Inal I . nromnin has Itnan Kfinaffl/I fmm 1 Sflfl 


T’lic wages policy die has been cast, and 
A with the consequences for economic 
development in 1970. The yardstick for 
wage increases in the New Year is the 
agreement reached for 1 .2 million public 
service employees. 

4 ie signal effect of tills first round of 
• negotiations is and will be greater 
than any guidelines and recommendations 
that may yet be made. 

Recommendations have already been 
made by all and suhdiy - the Five Wise 
Men of the government's economic affairs 
brains trust, the Ministry of Economic 
Affairs,- the employers and the 
employees. 

Opinions as to the possible level of 
wage Increases this, year varied so much, 
though, that agreement on a joint recom- 
mendatio n was not reached at. Dr 
fijctutier s concerted action committee 
talks between representatives of his 
Ministry and the two sides offndustry. 

Following the agreement reached in 
tne public service negotiations official 
rate? for wage-earners will increase , by 
between 14.5 per cent. in the lowest and, 
U.5 pw cent in 1 the highest category. Hie 
fprsplary-earpers pre between 8.5 
and 12.7 percent., . 

These figures do not take extra sickness 
5 $™$**, fhat came into force on 1 
January inlp account Public service wage 
C ° S l, th f^ by automatically increase by 

roughjy 3,^ per cent, , . / ' ' \ 1 ■ 

Agreement has also been reached on 
rates to Ire paid- from 1 January 1970 in 
the coal industry. They Involve, increases 
oi.b?twecu eleven and seventeen per cent, 
also not taking Into account the six weeks 


Are price 
increases 
in the wind? 

full pay from the employer in the event 
of sickness. 

As spokesman for IG Metall, the metal- 
workers union, chajrinan Otto Brenfier ’ 
has demanded a twelve-per-cent wage 
increase. Similar demands ' have' been 
made by IG'Druck 'und Papier, the- 
printing and paper workers union. • 

.^•[h the. year having got off to tliis 
start the employers 1 appear to have 
resigned themselves to the fact that there 
will be no avoiding' wage increases in 

excess of ten per cent this time round. 

The climate iof wage negotiations is 
determined to no small extent by the 
uncommon state the labour market is in. 
There, has since the middle of last year 
been talk of unmistakeable signs of the 
ecfcnomy easing off but any such trend 
has yet to make its presence felt on the 
labour marketi ' 

Indeed, never before, has there been 
such , an urgent and comprehensive 
demand for labour., last weekend the 
major, daily newspapers had so many 
column inches of situations vacant that 
the figures are a belter illustration of the 
situation than just abput anything else. 
Three Saturday editions oflcading dailies 
between them contained 300 pages of 
jobs on offer. *■■■■ ■ 

Despite particularly unfavourable 


weather tho labour market In December 
boat all records. According lo labour 
administration officials so great a demand 
has never , before chased so short a supply 
of unemployed. 

Economic Affairs Minister Karl Schiller 
lias noted nonetheless that “At the 
moment excess pressure is less of a danger 
than collapse due to an unusual shortage of 
liquidity.''.. 

Finance Minister Alex Mailer has 
commented that the wage agreement in 
the public services has made it easier for 
him to forgo taxation increases in prdcr 
to ,skim off purchasing power and put a 
damper, on the economy, 

-■Consumer purchasing power will, one 
cannot but suspect, be reduced by price 
increases, though Dr Schiller reckons with 
an average consumer price increase of 
only two and a half to three per cent this 
year and is gratified that this country 
thus remains among the world's best for 
economic stability, 

. It is rather, odd that at the latest 
concerted action talks between the 
Economic Affairs Ministry arid the two 
sides of Industry agreement was reched 
on one point only and that that point was 
that price increases in excess of three per 
cent are unlikely to occur this year. 

The unions do not want to lay them- 
selves open to charges of adding fuel to 
the tire of an inflationarily overheated 
boom by means of hefty wage increases 
aqd the employers do not want to admit 
the possibility of hefty price increases 
with wage talks due. They could just be 
wrong in their joint assumption. : 

L „ Walter Slotosch 

(SUddeutsche Zeltung, 19 January 1970) 


940,000. The statistics office reckons 
that this figure will drop by a further 
100,000 in the next ten years. 

This is acting as a. break to growth. 
The Chamber of Commerce is now trying 
to estimate the extent of the effect this 
will have on Berlin. 

If the results are unfavourable and the 
trend contuiues Berlin will have to reckon 
on its gross productivity lagging one per 
cent behind the economic growth In the 
Federal Republic. 

T^e basis of future expansion would 
then be' | an increase t'o T productivity, 
which lias proved iri the past to be 
Berlin's biggest asset .towards, economic 
girowth. 1 • f • 

There was o 5.2 per cent increase rate 
in the actual gross product per capita in 
Berlin as opposed to a figure of. 4.6 per 
cent in thq Federal Republic! 

Taking those figures aga, jynria^can.ho 
seen that though there may be a Recline 
in productivity in Berlin as well as the 
rest of this country the actual gross 
produot will only increase by 3,3 per cent 
per annum., i , , 

The most optimistic estimates for the 
upper limits' of growth arc based on the 


S? i ii« n r , S3 • Tli e average pay packet, standing to- produot will only Increase by 3,3 percent 

cqu , a,lty f 8 taf l; ; day at almost 1 7, 800 Marks per year is a per annum., . • , 

management that employers have ate# , -iitti© above the Federal Republic average. The most optimistic estinialcs for the 
in ° iiL 80 ? raV i C a P 1,05 ! 5001, Although Berlin’s- economy all in all upper limits of growth are based on the 

, n , J r . iwelve-member supervjsj , CQU ^ „ ot keep up wlth expanslon in the possibility that the population movement 
o non 01 ri ^ niS w 1 1 , bclwce *? 'Federal Republic in the past ten years the might brink an advantage of 9,000 more 

’ . employees there should, - amazing. prosperity of the isolated city working people by 1 980! 

commission feels, be six manngr® , cannotbe overestimated . 1 p. . 1 It Is true that this would not brltig an 

representatives. Four members There can be no question of Berlin increase'to Berlin's labour force potential, 

represent the staff, two of uj* i: being i bled or drained as some commen- ’ But immigration into* the city wpuld-at 
representing their trade union toal« : : . - . ••• 

remaining two seats, it is proposri 

should be filled by agreement bet *** 1 . . . . . 

the two sides, meaning in practice sew ... ,• . 

seats for the management and fivefold . 

•T>ernard Cornfeld J head of Investors tT n ur Ttcwl will thlR 

On the other hand the Commission gj JlS Overseas Service (IOS) hefd.an im- *WI W MIIU 1 ¥ 1 U lrU.J .9 

on to make recommendations desigj porta nt conference a few weeks back. He t, _ j _ ' A • _ 

both lo make It more difficult to overi* was recommended by Karl Schiller to buy DBO. “ v OuO AUlv 
minority opinion on the superb . shares in Federal Republic companies for : \ n 

board and to allow staff a greater say. hls funds, since they would riffer “special V6SLT DO ?' 

The subdued first response of the trtf ; opportunities.” . ; ' ••• * 

union confederation, varying as it ^ i. i • Bernie can congratulate himseli today 

between praise and disappoint!^ for not following the advice he was given. : The answcr t0 this auestion must be 
U ? e ° T wen the unions^ . The Economic r Affairs Minister was mis- S0U TjJJ lhe prognoses^hand. It goes 
had to admit that the eommisssion JJ taken in iiis stock : market' predictions. t sav i nothat it will be particularly 

£S!. e SIr e n 311 10 rca S h 8 COmpl0 ^ prices haVe ^unged. -.-; . : i . to W 

tolorahlc fcr al! canMmed. _ Since lhe beginning of 1970 tho Mock “ with „nv accuracy, but it isonly to 


least counterbalance the loss of emigrat- 
ing workers. 

If this proves to be true i gross 
product In Berlin could increase by 4:5 
per cent. Acting on these figures it is 
possible to estimate tho actual growth 
graph of the Berlin economy between 3.3 
and 4.5 per cent, that is, as long as no 
further Berlin crisis comes along nor any 
unexpected recession, both of which 
would throw all figures out of joint. 

It goes without saying that no one can 
say what the future will bring. 

But it ' seems highly' probable that 
Berlin's economy will continue ■ to lag 
behind the trading figures for the Federal 
Republic tq a small extent. 

Added to this it is clear that the whole 
framework pf-prefercntial taxes, subsidies 
apd easy credit, facilities, although it 
undeniably has a beneficial effect, docs 
have a crippling effect oh the isolated 
dtv’s [roc afld wtcrortsing spirit, , , ' 

Sometimes It is possible to gain file 
lihhres&ibn that the Senate's greyest joy is 
to take the. last ounce of fr<pe private 
enterprise and wrap it In the cottonwool 
of Berlin’s highly subsidised economy. 

This loo Is a brake lo the city's 
. grqwth. But oven if it were possible to 
■ keep the distance behind the Federal 
Republic in economic matters at' the 
current level, and sec that It docs not 
increase Berlin wputyhittc'flort a victory. 
. Whctliei; anything greater 'thalV this can 

possibly bp. achieved .regains to bo seen. 

Last year thirty tjioiisand new; citizens 
moved to fieilin, tbe lilghesf figures for 
Immigration' t 6 the city si rice the Wall' was 
. erected. But thefe atfc gyaVe doubts that 
' figures such a^ this 'vvill be repeated in (he 
corilihg' years wliefi it 'seerqS that the 


overall economy for this country will not 
be so bright, . 

So the largest industrial city between 
Paris and Moscow is facing the future 
with mixed feelings. 

Behind the impressive facades of 
KurfUrstendanim and Tauentzicnstrafic 
doubts are being expressed that the fonn- 
er capital will be able to draw enough 
wind to sec it through the seventies. 

The perpetual unrest at the Free Uni- 
versity strikes fear into some observers 
that even more investors will shy away 
from the disturbed city. 

Will this be yet another brake to 
Berlin's development? 

Berlin is still considered as the epitome 
of pulsating life. This good reputation is 
vital lo its future economic well-being. 

(Frankfurter Allgameine Zeltung 
flir Deutschland, 21 January 1970) 


Mine 8 a kingsize 
filter - on the rocksl 


HaimonrschePra&se 


O n average everyone In this country 
sent 1,826 cigarettes up in smoko 
during 1969 according to recently ’jiub- 
. li shed figures. -i 

This figure constitutes an increase per 


u j inai wen me unions . me economic r Affairs Minister was mis- 

had to admit that the eommisssion J* taken in ills 'Stock: market- predictions, 
made every effort to reach a compmiw Sliare prices have. plunged. - i .• 

tojcrablc tor all concerned. Since the beginning of 1970 the Stock 

.The report takes much of the wind -! market. index for ^tlijs country’s shares has 

of the workere’ participation Sails and tjj : fallen by about, eight pec cent. ‘ ... • 

fijel to start t» 


of the workers* participation Sails and : fallen by about, eight pec cent. ‘ • 

Opposition will find little toe! to start# Now on the stock markets -and at the 
ball rolling again. bond counters at this : country’s banks 

Politicians and the general public J ,-long j faces are, beingt pplled. ; With the 
any case unlikely to man the barricade : stock' market : being regarded as &n, econ- 
for or against workers* participation uomie barometer nervousness spreads more 
the present worries about the state of# and niore over the whole, economic 

economy, prices and wages. . sphere . 1 

The Bledenkopf report is both ■ There is scarcely any optimism left 
ing and disappointing for both sides. »; () and it is scarcely too early to as|c the 
such it achieves an equality it rejects kV question: How bad will 19?0 be?' " 
workers' participation. Herbert cViN*.' ^ ■ 

(Hun no verse he Presse, 22 January l^ 1 


How bad will this 
bad economic 
year be? 

■ The answer to this question must be 
sought In the prognoses orwharid. It goes 
without saying that it will be particularly 
difficult this year to forecast develop- 
ments with any accuracy, but it is only to 
be expected that all the experts are not all 
wrong all the time. 

All the forecasts for future trends in 
the coming year agree on one point. 1970 
will not, be very bad, but at Best average 
arid at worst mediocre. 

i Soothsayers predict that the gross na- 
tional product will increase by between 
4.'1 and 5 per dent net/ that is to' say 
allowing for price increases. . ' 

Wage: and salary: earners 'will profit 


most from economic growth. The pre- 
dicted increase for gross salaries Is be- 
. tween 10.8 per cent (the Industrialists' 
estimate) and 13.5 per cent (the Econ- 
omic Affairs Ministry says). No clair- 
voyant expects the cost of living to rise 
by more than three per cent. 

Even If these forecasts are too optim- 
istic “social symmetry’* will improve in 
1970. Industrialists too will have their 
slice of the cake - profits should rise 
although probably by only three to five 
per cenL 

There is no certainty that these figures 
will come about. Revaluation set new 
criteria. Foreign currency reserves have 
vanished abroad to the tune of 20,000 
- million Marks since October. But there 
are no grounds for excessive pessimism. 

But we must tell ourselves honestly 
that a fruitful year like 1969 with its 
: prosperity explosion will not be part: and 
parcel of this country's' economy again in 
. the foreseeable fiiiure, .j 1 

(Olrt ZEIT, 23 January 1970) 


: capita of 1 70.2 per cent river 1959 when 
64,700 million cigarettes were consumed. 

During these ten years the filter cigarette 
• has (increased its ’share of the market 
- from 60 .to 1 84 per cent. This means that 
along with Switzerland the Federal Re- 
■. public is tile most filter-conscious coun- 
try lit 1 the world. . ■ , , ■ 

Market research experts feel 1 Ilia t in the 
next ten years a completely new feel fpr 
: 'smoking - Will conquer .people’s fears of 
cigarette : smoking. The United States is 
already , producing cigarettes supposedly 
. tasting/ Of popcorn, < strawberries or 
••.whisky! / 1 ;< 

■ ■ . The- people whose job it is lo send as 
much tobacco up in smoke as possjble,are 

■ expecting further novel developments in 
the production sector. 

It is possible that the cigarette of the 
future will dispense with paper and be 
made entirely of products obtained from 
: tobacco. Market /researchers 1 > predict an 
increase In cigarette consumption between 
1 now arid 1979 of over 40 per cent 
1 to a figure of 160,000 million. 

Most of this increase is expected to be 
1 as a result of the fairer sox taking up the 
hablti In 1959 only 15 per cent of the 
female population smoked. By 1969 this 
had increased to 25 per cent. By 1979 it 
is expected that there will be a further 
growth lo 35 per cent. 

(Hannnvereehe Presse. 10 January 1970) 



THE GERMAN TRIBUNE 


10 February 1970- No. ft 


I 



BUSINESS 


At Cologne furniture fair 
plastics are in 



C creational" new developments were day version of old oakwood rustic seats 
? , th j! / ear ■ tcrna tional Soft , eather plUows 0r linen cushioi1s 

ta£?F* ta feffrth exactitude “ 10 the >tarbl “ s ° f 

the tendencies to be reckoned with in T .. , 

living styles of the future. This impression . lndlvidual P 1 ** 8 oF upholstered furni- 
could be gained on a first walk through * ure » settees for two, three and four 
the fourteen exhibition hails in Cologne. P eo P le can be completed with the addi- 
The first unmistakeable sign is that ™ of symmetrical and asymmetrical 

plastics have made the breakthrough into taWes an “ other pieces of furniture to 

the furniture world. It is equally obvious complete the set. 

.that bright powerful striking colours are , Also on show were two pieces coin- 
gaining In popularity for llvlngrrooms, prising modem upholstered ‘ furniture 
bedrooms md kitehfens. ; i. 1 with. a; wooden rbase and various possibiii- 




Another (trend that is making a great 
Impression Is thnt for mobility and flexi- 
bflity. Furniture is made ligliter and much 

of Ills provided with caitors. • i* 

The house, home or flat of the' future 



ties for adding apd extending the .scheme 
and removeable overlays of foam-rubber 
material. A new kind of upholstered suite 
’was exhibited 1 with single armchairs as the 
basic elements which could, b'e pushed 
together ; and converted into- a 1 couch or 
used 'individually as easy fchalrs ’for tele- 
vision viewing. 1 -Tiie cushions - are inter- 
1 changeable and can give the suit a modem 
antique or 'rustic character. 



No. 409 - 10 February 1970. 

I TECHNOLOGY 

Hamburg’s 
Post Office 
Tube 

SBEINNECKUtZEnUNQ I 


THE GERMAN TRIBUTE 







An interior of the futurri $hown at Cologne . , < 

; |i> / i i ! I 

A holiday s'cent' at Hamburg 
boat show! 


H ead postmaster Georg Heck of Ham- 
burg region is probably the only 
man with complete confidence In the" 
large-scale pneumatic postal network he 
himself designed. 

[. All over the country the Bundespost Is 
..'.busy discontinuing existing, smaller pneu- 
■ ■ malic postal services because the amount 

• .•JHifi'of post they carry does not warrant the 
expense. . ■: 

• Although cities everywhere have the.. 
1? nr, . . same transport, problems tlie Hamburg 
O . • example of a large-scale pneumatic postal • 
. r* service has yet to be followed elsewhere., 

' "" ' 11 Heck’s system is to be adopted in 
1 l: : Brussels but observers from many other 



Computer operates 
railway junction 

Seelze junction, near Hanover, is a cut above 
other railway shunting yards. It has its own 
computer and automatic signal box. The 
electronic brain works out shunting plans, 
which used to be made up by a railwayman 
who plodded round the yards to make sure 
which waggons wore to roll- where. It also 
does all the other paper work that used to 
occupy the time of a fair number of staff. 
The train driver on the shunt locomotive is 
now little more than a symbolic figure. His 
locomotive Is controlled by the signalman In 
his box high up above the yards. Ex- 
perimental automation at Seelze began in 
July 1967 and trials are due to ba completed 
and evaluated by the Bundesbahn, German 
Federal Railways, In 1972.C* 1 h‘»to: w. Drunotie/ 
Bund«Bbahndiraktiqn Hannover) 


minutes it used to take post office vans to 
get through during the rush hour.- 

Twenty-six bombs are in continual use. 
At peak periods in particular the ease 
with which the tube keeps mail on the 
move makes itself apparent. It can handle 
300,000 letters an hour and one contain- 


How soon will traffic outstrip roads? 


V: “ lu . .V*™. “PP?y *Q me T c^hraakpW art* 1 Ui,» ).■ . „ .... urusseis dui ooservera irom many inner 3uu,uuu letters an nour ana oi 

I 11 ? Coldrifyjtt wdLjOhe | ! uiitarwiiifa frw for ■!]? F a lndl, °n spareitlme cop’iu; m countries have evidently mot been fired ; er can follow the other every 2 

.t°t alioVyed ■kitcheifeupbofirds with there w i 1 •£!#■ i? 0 *- ■, SL?S? eil flp JVers and othef water rats in llwFtdi with sufficient enthusiasm to follow suit delivering its contents direct 

built-in "HeMridal iquiprtient' and "cup- .£ h “ f?/ ref f llin 8. 1 I ir(il Republic.. i n this country itself Hamburg’s neW ; destination sorting office. 

.tor -also- offered' a kitchen-in kit fohn JS n *?} Federal Republic interna- they 1 are' 'likely io spend' adding to i ?q. n ? earlv ,u ree and has so fa^ b£eh : ‘ivfen at any h 

* 'pa6ked up in a cardboard box.- 1 i ■ . ° in imprdving tffeir equipment' this suna three yeirs and has so far Weh ( are handed If ithan atany> 

, Where kitefiehs 1 ' phtol-iiJUii* : ,!L . .The' edition has been ‘its and -what they lire llfcly to geffofd a ^ CCCSS * u . . . . -j. ex ® ept?1 *3* post office, 

dcmbfedlv -i d - ,?wnrr|Uii-ecoliorhicmhacle! " r - ■ they 'Spend. 1 • Geprg Heck is so convinced of the Not until trials on the new 




...iliere 65 


Nine exhibition buildings w’er needed aCT3ErSf25r^S 
• « total surface;, tee pf.aboutyiS.OOO 

^ 1" < V"' ' - -'■Srtttl mo™ iHec/startcd .wo*: on.his, 

'ru- ' * ^729,000 Marks, , t ... ... • Fi^e huri'dred a'rid tbn bbot' titilldlng t,ie ‘ P ast feW years fibrcglas^has litoi fifteen years ago. ( In: order to 

♦uu cil 10 ' -j . , J?^ la P t conslderatipn at yards, .and cdhitrUctibn comparilds, 1 deal- fr ^ a 1 per 1 Cent shore bf tlitf mill developed techniques .a trial 

particularly Ad 'rind 'edmbrheht' siipnlferi ciime : from to capture ^S hcr'ceiU of tt^ libnlfeW lube was built in 1961 bi 


cienr tp-tiOVfer the cost or taking part 4 U . CCU n M i * u- 

• this short. The Hamburg exhibit fill he containers are caUed and have h.m- 

ed Waft varying lii'pfldS rrort 300'Nl ®? lf 51101 a,on ^ a sect,on of the U,be ' 

: to sikffig ure s ums. 1 • *»*■ -i ■ Tlie bomb on rollers that conveys 

^TftflfTWTinffOefir tirWoose tliousamls.pfdettC^la^xUQ^o^iiiic is, 
tho iniqd Swiins. One observutiod’ish f e . els » the coippletp apinllofn. , Cq t)io 
1 bpa is ; : made : of ' 1 brtifiiial ma terials 1 Bundespost’?. urban [problems. , |MI , ; 

bec6rpihg more common and- populai- :Heck started .work: on.his pcl prefect. ■ 


Not until trials on the new section are 
successfully . concluded is a pneumatic.: 
postal link between head office and the 
air mail sorting . office at Fuhlsblhtel 
airport to be constructed ., Development , 
costs will by then have amounted to three 
million Murks or so. .... . , 

The predecessor of tlie, world’s,, firsi 
eighteen-inch postal tube was a. 2.6-indn 


O n average the number of motor 
vehicles on the roads will Increase 
twice as fast 6i the mDeage of roads to 
accommodate them between now and 
1985. The number of veldcles registered 
is expected to Increase by almost fifty per 
cent as against an expected 25-per-cent 
Increase in road mileage available. 

The increase in cities is likely to be 
only forty per 'cent for vehicles' and 27 
per cent for roads' but hi view of existing 
bottlenecks traffic conditions in cities 
will still probably be worse than the 
national average. • ' ■ ■' ; • 1 

These 1 alarming conditions are made in ‘ 
a traffic study conducted by Deutsche 1 
Shell Of Hamburg. " ' ,l ; :f ; 


A housewife’s dream kitchen 


"(PIftto! Mesie-und . . ar 

vi ,,-r i ftMrtBl | up?r-aes.n ? ,b.p.MjiO m 

' <1 /lii”’ • 1 *' • I V n “ 

.wi|l ditTer.from thd-present day norm:in ,f» 
that a lot of the stiffness ;and formality P* 
wJU vanidi. . a . of 

•; - ‘ ’Tenants will- be: able arrange a- room 
1 hows, they - wan l and' change! (the 1 arrange- .,fo 
•mentatiwill."] -i-, .,»i . :il1l „ f | ,‘ 5a i 

j-!The old fasliioned bedroom, will pro- '9b 
'bably. give -way to a. living, sleeping,, study "pa 
and; relaxdttohi rdomi In -this respecti there fig 
ls< a higlily. 1 interest tag- development,' 1*1 a 
bed-sitting-room with a.Mvolvinfc'fWohn- 
• ttirmj- iThis should set! new standards for 
j’the-fUturft 1: *».vy u-,j if;..,,, 

! .TJili is riot > the fonjy iarea [where -there; is 
great- interest for- [special -lighting! effects. \ 

A . new iklnd . of - Uvlhg-room' cupboirdiWaa - 1 1 

- exhibited with-built-inlights. As th&music 
plays different coloured-lightrf i.lare 
shown to match the modd ofthemusidand 
■theilistener. . -j. -■ n :i ni -|i. 

' i It ' seems that as a general rule cplour 

schemes are going- to be -vital: in dining- 
toomsn; •!! •!,', - : j. •«« > , n 

,| ' 1 Wide- ranges 1 are offerpd. irt- the spheres 
1. of i individual/ pieces 1-4. ^telephone.: seats, 
;M0nd the |ike rJ- and of tables andchairsiin 
(! generaln* A- pound .table consisting of six 
r Interchangeable . segments- 1 and ■ even. , a 
stereocliaiQi with the' two speakers, built '. 
•--into the arms. 1 ; ,. , M ' • ll 

.■?i - There, are innovation? 1 in . the . materials 1 

- and . styles of, upholstered furniture, -Ope , 

:■ natural, development here ; is the extensive 
1, use- being -made of moulded laminated 
■ -wood.. - 1 • •' 

^ There is an unmistakeable tendency ' 

1 1 towards the rustic,- One set of upholstered 
furniture called Vita rustlka is a modem- 


.^29,600 Marks, ... ... • Fi^e huri'died arid ’ton bbat’ titilldlng tire' past feiv years flbreglas^ has lira fifteen years ago. 1 In: order to test newly rii 

*iiu bil 101 -! , , ,? or ant consideration at yards, .and cdhitrilctibn comparilds, 1 deal- P ten 1 per 1 dent share t>f the mill developed techniques .a trial, section of 1 

' : r C L P° rtlcu 1 arl y . rinH ^dmbrrient' snipplior^ cairie : from to capture ^5 lier'ceiU of tt^liba^W lube was built in 1961 between, the, 

: SS W tbc -Jiu d ^ PW lc , ular Jy WEtiVobe fnd bVeridk. tnak- , M,“ n m'hde materials arc, howoveh'ffl , SgFtHig , office ant}, the postal 

£ llmis* '.ttlt'CiWt. V^-VHimSht iomnioli on' tho smaller vessels whsl oheque'offife. ,. . , . 

1 h !!!«»;! .i* '*,?■ i e H^T^, iH thd v^tirld. Mahy ihtercit- wood, stb6l and aluminium remain fn* The Bundespost has for some time been, 

§!??* %ElSp ^d parties' c6uld iiol ,, get a itiok-ifi at the fitos for the bigger classes. -? considering possibilities pf complcment- 
i '’W#" s | 10 ^] and will have to vyait till 1^71'. ' ■ 1 1 Gimniicky boats are being biiill ev«i ipg pr replacing surface mail transport- 

ut ‘ 1 of ice' ' inwea^T W ' 6 / B "i- Every type H ofisaij|ng craft 'that' will bo , the smaller typesj One ftoUblo ojtami V(M\ ^me |Other system, iri ^.towps w^fS, 


; Heck started -.work: on, his, -pel -project. . link between the .telegraph, office and the , 
[ftcen -years ago. i In : order to test newly r , . stock: exchange in: 1887. Hamburg’s first : 


ofbetweeh three ana nvH'iWMnl' t n:wwi. ng. sumn[tqr, nepr.. Miami, li' "rr ! . . . Z .W'ii I ™ 

tra ! ,s P flranl k S el wWc h^ s^oqfii ; r mining. pf, fire popts P ..., :I . 

fo^Sw '{P JWFSH^-RWP* f d he ». shoving, pffUs, phofogeniparid ' br !5 Ult ^ ,n 8 view, of underwaters^ Hamburg’s experimental postal tube is. 

‘Saasaaaas 

*»*■* dbz&'s&x- 

[ghest point. 

It ft’esfftii&fed that thbre are at present 


# -- Avvii IIUUV 

gures during 1969. 

(Handebblattrai 7ftfUfiry T970)' ‘ 


pneumatic, ipostal. network was lptcr ex- 
tended to a total length .of twenty mile?: 
and mainly used to.convay telqgraiqs. > * 

In -Hamburg, as elsewhere tho oldpncu*; 
matic post was no longer fell. to be. worth, 
the effort. and- expense, and the- service 
was discontinued at the end of last year. . 

Its - big brother is now on ,the, test bed. 
Post- office: specialists are. doubtful wheth-, 
er " the expense is justified on a system 1 
that >ls only of use ovsr-shott, city-centre 
stretclies. ■ ' ■ , ‘ 1 ' 1 ■■ • < . ■ r- l 

Although it has so far proved a success 
and set up records for mall conveyance 
Hamburg's experimental postal tube re- 
mains the only one of Its kind; in tliis- 
country. ' ' Cud Schuster 1 


Forecasts' arc based on an 'mciease^ In 
tile 1 hiiifibSr' W prWi , !(i M cilW ,, ffdih ,K j3'7 

million this year to 19.9 million fe 1985 ' lair snare oniie mil 'inn revenue , . 
and it Is dssiiincd that the, nVkigc annual conclude d,,Ouglit to.be spent entirely 
niUdage wili 1 .decrease' illglitl^ ffom : 9 , ,8l5 road-bulldingh :. ■■ i f .r* 
iri‘ 1970 16 8J750 in 1985. 1 ' iJ ' ll 

■. . . >.i|. .1-. l! : ■ . . I . - 


'hie number .of cars per thousand head . 
of the population is expected io increase 
from 223.7 . to ;297. In other words the 
present figure of one car per 4.47 people 
will by 1985 be one to three and a third. 

The surface area of toad space, it is 
forecast, will jhcre'ase from, the present 
945 to 1,145 square miles, Increase rates 
varying According to category. 

Trunk roads will increase from 127 to 
103, state roads from 164 to 204, district 
roads from 131 to 164 and unclassified 
roads from 52Q to 578 square miles. 

According to the survey . 300,000 mil- 
lion Marks is the least amount that must 
be- invested in; the- road network between 
now and 1985ii Further figures arc provid- 
ed to prove that by 1985 road traffic will 
in rone ' form or ano t lierdiate- f UUfW .■ 

fair 'share of the bill. Tills revenue, .it is 


Motorists versus - 
wildlife 


.i . l.-.i i:- I . I , -Hi [I 

Oleasp don’t run us. over!" p .touching 

. d irap.aoor io;fluo,w sran*- rougtuy a mite ana a hall long, ,atiu sireiuics. ■ • • ■ X- sign showing two hares end. a .pak of rnjy fls _ nd nn _ ■ animals have atraved on 

dive through the bottom of the boatu* ei gh teenl ncheS jnf d Is h] etof . S trong m eta! Although it has so far proved a success hedgehogs begs .motorists, jn areasinjdi Jn ■ ■ oad t h e v will have ^ hard 

1 the sea. .... oStit&s foirapkM ilong tlie Passive 1 and set up records for matt conveyance wfld life. Another shows a deer at foD S r.??, 1 " riieir wav back into the 

> For - wa terskiing enthusiasts a-pilot bs Sbe?- ■ * ""I Hamburg’s experimental postal tube re- gaUop and bears the legend Gamecross- tone finding Uieh rw -ay back into !i 

has been developed with drag tacklcf 1 ^ch' bomb ’hol^.iiop.b "let^ .and mains the only one of jts kind : in,-tliis. ing, w - . j, but not lete Warnings have been 

desioneH t fo/ 1 a 1 f ,000 » M f rkS ’ Thism °S ^ cargo in |wo and a half .to country. Cad Schuster 1 These warnings appear to hive little lssue d that animals isolated on the left or 

ul t ^ cn , t y horsepower nw» thfee minutes a's bppbsed t.o the twenty (rhein-neckar-zeitunc, 17 January 1970) e ff wt , Every year roughly 122,000 hares, 0 f t he road could degenerate as a 

se^s to m0t0 MS V; •: >• K,?.: •; 44,000 *dwr-' ihd .-Miy 5 number; 'of -cats,!; ^ t ‘of| n foedIng, 

S, i h b . e r a m S rJL L d ?r ,0 /^ en yS IT hedgehogs, birds, pine martens and other M that remains ^ self-help, but here 

M the demand M - - ■ 1.1 . small animals.meet their death under the too there Is no easy w out. Sop ndlng 

1 In othe?snhn a ‘ A 0 ^ *^ ER FORM 'i- . 1 . . . . : n- wh«l of motor vehicles. ' the hbrnanid flashing the headli|hl are 

T^t ed reDkc ;:We hereby 9 } lb80r,be 10 tHE GfeRMAN.TftlBUNE.at the (following rates - of dm 

•tsssssxssixs. w ffsmrxaitssi 


•‘•'•‘ifr^tikTUrieSr Rundschau, 11 January 1970) 

.' -» [ i| • Jf.-I.r !. , ' I ; ; 

'- -i vi I ! . •• • ii *• 


I Specially flevjsed reiic.CS, with' % narrow 
m&l), tlie latest, proposal, qfc not really 
lh'e„si)sOifci ; ej||ier T They ,art Intended to; 
close the road to all iRrgc animals V at a,, 
cqst of 10,000 Marta a kilometre 
.Ypt the. pric^ jg.'jjot tlif only , dubious 
poiijt- There are bound to be 'breaks in | 
the fence at tlie Junction ( with .popntry, , 
roads and, once animus t pave rayed on 
to the main road they will have a hard 
time finding their way back into the 
fotfest or what have you. \ 

^ ■■ Last but not lelsti Warnings have been 
Issued' that animals isolated on the left or 



OKtOER FORM 


the i following rates 


: company - trom, this. -country . Shows’, 
kind of paint that can be used on a bis 1 
/outdrtfcurface with -noundercoat.Thk^ 

save a'great dealtof labour. i - 

■ i" Up-to-date- salling faShiona caJI for o 

• attentions tbol 'Tlie' welWressed- m 
wfll leave his old oilfsidns in the- 'ait 

• Today’s ''modes are ‘ichic - foam-rub!' 
'riiitsr synthetic 'fur^ practical knee lw# 
lace-up boots . and 'smart life-lacked 1 

' skl-anorak style. ) .[• -.) ..-u 
: i For - those 'who • want it Is possible * 

■ choose - a. lifejacket- in matching P at ^ 
'to 'Swimming- trunks. iColoufful- and ' 
■tractive patterns are not the present® 

'fashionable landlubbers. •• •' 

fKJ0lerNBchr!chlen f 23 January 

— ^ f t ■ , . j ■ . * 

Sail! ng hoatsat' Hamburg slip w waiting fot . 
lively breeze) (Photo: Mariahne vender Laod* 1 . 


-. Deutsche Marks U.S. Dollars 
8ix months - ■,18.00 (3.901, 3.00 (1.00V ' 
Twelve months 20.00 (7.80) 6.00 (1.95) 

(Underline whatever applicable) 


n. ; .-Jtii 

Pounds,, sterling.: 


(1.00) ' <1,',1A .(0- 7..0), 
(1.95) 1.16.0, (0,13.11 ,. 


hedgehogs, birds, pine martens and other 
small animals.meet their death under the 
wh«l of motor vehicles. 

This is not to mention thousands of 
millions of Insects, some pf them out of 
the ordinary, that breathe their last on 
car windscreens every summer* 

: ThesC are impressive figures and'occa^ 
slonally earn a mention In local' papers-^ 
"peer runs across mala road, n die." Is It 


All that remains is self-help, but here 
too there Is no easy lyay out. Sounding 
the horn' anid flashing tHe headlight are 
Generally of ho use once a deer, has 


ecjded to lump ' and | swervlhg is dan- ! 
eroiis and dan be 1 prosecuted in the event 


The amount miy alsd be paid In your country'a currency 

-. - Messrs / Mr / Mrs / Miss . , . 

• ’ ■ : r ..j) . 

■ Name: ^..il ■ ■ — - 


UIG VlUilltuy. UM.l Ulv.on.kr Ulbi. VI. Of- _ , ' ' _ -J •-•I' 

car windscreens every summer^ resul t f ^ Cr ncc, ^ en I? . Causc f ■ as , , a 

: These are Impressive figures and 'occa^ The only answer is to aini at* a head-on 

slonally earn a mention In: local- papers-. c0 (H sian \ tf the braking distance is too 
"Peer runs across malaroad, n die. -Is It shorL This can be the lesser evil even' if 
going tpo fer to ask who gets m. >vhqse. the cai - ^ vvrife-off ahd neither the 
way? -Was the main, road there .pefofe the i an doWner nor the lessee are under obliga- 


ProfesBlon: 
i , Sjns^: 

«Clty: 

■ , t • 

Country: 


' i . i .1..... i — 


Zip Code: — 




please return the completed order form to: r . , 

THE GERMAN TRIBUNE i FRIEDRICH REINECKE VfeRLAG GMBH 
23. 8ch6ne Aussfqlit, 2 Hamburg 22 • Federal Republic of; Germany 


g^mecrasslngl 1 ,. . , ; . ,rj 

■ But of course, tills is; not the only 
approach^ Year by year sbiite forty, mo- 
torists sustain fatal injuries in accidents 
hwqlving wild fife,. Mote than 2,000 are, 
inifiiired, sopiej qf them seriously. , r 8 
. Is there, no: way . of eliminating the 
danger? Alas, the situation .ifcpje tty 
hopeless. Deer poqn grpw accustomed to 
Silver paper woiina in spirals found road- 
side trees as a dfefejfent. Electric 'fences 
ar4 not : mugh good, either! Wild- boars arsl 
feaid to ^t a kick from the shock. • , 


tion to'pay for, the damage. 1 ' : ' 

' A deer that has been niri over foay not 
be taken home; It must be reported to tlife 
nearest' forestry office and handed over. 
After 'gtiing through* this rigmarole few 
motorists will still be mumbling about 
right of way. “ 

The safe consolatioii, and a macabre 
one . too, 1 Is that the problem will no 
longer arise ' when the last remaining 
stretches of countryside have been swal- 
lowed up by megalopolis. ; 

(sVuTtGARTER ZftlTUNG. 2d "January 1970) 





1 



OUR WORLD 


P olicewomen gain in importance 
in crime detection 





I n North Rhine- Westphalia the weaker 
sex is soon to strengthen the force of the 
police force. Policewomen, who until 
now have had to deal mainly with inter- 
rogating children, young people and other 
women, will in future join their male 
counterparts in hunting con men, sex 
criminals, thieves and murderers. 

Up till now the same restrictions have 
been applied to policewomen In every 
Federal stale. 

But now the young women in North 
Rhine-Wostphalia will learn to use pistols 
and defend themselves with karate. Min- 
ister of the Interior Willi Weyer said: 
“There is no basic reason why police- 
women should not be given the same 
duties as the men.” 

This modern thinking on the part of 
the crime squad is not a haphazard affair. 
While there are enough policewomen to 
go around and sufficient new recruits 
joining the force to cover requirements in 
the next few years the situation is differ- 
ent with regard to policemen and staff 
shortages are expected. 

Added to this it must be taken into 
consideration that many female recruits 
do not want their career to be centred 
round absconders, young drunks, parents 
who have beaten tlieir children and street 
wfe* Jhey. feel they have a right to 
join Hie crime -squadi: " .i-:,:: 

The Ministry of the Interior in the 
Federal state of North Rhine-Westphnlia, 
came to the conclusion that it had to date 
underestimated policewomen and given 
them tasks which virtually relegated them 
to the role of overseers. The crime squad 
has no duties which could be considered 
the exclusive preserve of either sex. In fact 
the most hard-boiled rough-neck will 
probably respond more favourably to an 
attractive woman than a hard-bitten pol- 
iceman. 

Heide Planas, 28, is a member of the 
tlrst group of nine women who are now 
being trained in DQsseldorf to join the 
former male preserve. She has fulfilled 
one of the qualifications for obtaining 




& ?'/§ A 


irKSr 

ELL: ’ : 4.- 


Policewomen are given extensive training In judo and karate 

(Photo: Nordbild) 


this post in that she has learned a 
profession. But she said: “Working as a 
technical assistant and translator bored me 
stiff.” 

The “Iiard boys” have sometliing new 
to contend with. One of them moaned to 
the crime squad who had caught him: 
‘We could have got away from you lot 
easily, but who would have thought that 
a .pretty, dolly like that Wotted with the 
cops.” 

, A 'different kind of woman is now 
entering the police crime squad. Whereas 
the maternal, protective kind of woman 
wants to perform the traditional duties in 
the women's police there is an undeniable 
quota of tough, clever women who know 
how to take care of themselves joining up 
for criminal investigation work. 

One official at the crime department 
of the Ministry of the Interior enthusias- 
tically said: “These girls cut as good a 
figure in a bikini as they do in evening 
dress at the bar of the plushest hotel.” 

is this profession too tough for wo- 
men? Clilef Commissioner Schulz-lsen- 
beck In DUsseldorf says: “A doctor's 


assistant or a nurse secs far more corpses 
and blood than a policewoman.” 

Is it likely that a policewoman would 
be scared of yobs who might well take no 
notice of a woman trying to arrest them? 
Heide Planas says confidently: “We are 
given a good basic training in self-dcfenco.” 
Where danger threatens all police 
work in teams. This is a rule which 
applies to men as well. 

For all eventualities women police are 
taught how to use firearms. It is not yot 
certain where Iholr service pistols arc to 
be carried. For want of regulations most 
women have decided to carry their pistols 
in their handbags. 

More applications have been received 
from women at tho police commissioner’s 
office than places available. But recruit* 
ment of women is to be substantially 
extended. 

The minimum age for joining is at 
present 21 , but it will soon be lowered to 
18. Training lasts three years. Starting 
pay for a police officer after training is 
between 600 and 700 Marks. 

(WE LT am SONNTAO, 1 8 January 1970) 


Gypsies plan to get themselves organised 

INTERNAL DISAGREEMENTS MUST BE RESOLVED 


fes (romapies aredtonsof tffi 
country) Is to go to Bonn and have talks 
With the government about the social 
position of their people. 

The initial moves for this decision 
were made by the Hamburg gypsy. Kar- 
way, who presented himself to President 
kuslav . Heinemann last October as 
spokesman, of this country's gypsies. 

At the time tliis caused controversy 
among the gypsies themselves, who com- 
plained that Karwpy liimself was not a 
German and that no one had authorised 
Bpnn° Speak ° n the Syncs’ . behalf in 

At the beginning of November there 
was a meeting in Hildeshelm of gypsies 
who were known beyond the border of 
their own territories, they decided jo 
nolcl a kind of population census among 
the romanics in this country. The, idea 
vras to set up in each city two committees 
or resident gypsies and those who were 


: v . V vr. r 

• ;T ’-'*•? : r- v 

.Lyj>.3t ~ U v s.i: 1^. 


travelling through to create a kind of 
gypsy parliament . .. 

_ The early winter Impeded tills plan. 
Only In the north of this country was it 
possible for some of the ' gypsies to 
organise themselves before winter fell, 
according to Paul Fahrenholz, one of the 
pioneers at HHdesheim. - 

lj) November there was a meeting 600 
or 700 strong in Minden, representing 
families with an average of five children. 
They accepted unanimously the decisions 
taken in Hildesheim. ■ 

Meantime Karway had promised that 
he would not speak up any more as a 
representative of Federal Republic gyp* 
res. Paul Fahrenhplz said that he had been 
spoken to and seen the light. 


In May 1968 Karway set up an inter- 
national travellers’ law commission to 
represent iomanies all over the world and 
he sent reports to the Council of Europe 
and the United Nations without any 
objections being raised. 

According to Fahrenholz the gypsies’ 
main grievance is that Karway’s report to 
the UNO lowers the international status of 
the travellers to virtually that of political 
refugees. 

Fahrenholz who belongs to the Sinti 
branch of the gypsies said: "Karway can 
do this if he likes for the Romi, but not 
us. We are Federal Republic citizens and 
dont want to be considered ‘internation- 

U i 

As a matter of fact there are more 
gypsies in the South of this country tlian 
me North. There are great concentrations 
m Ulm, Freiburg and Kaiserslautern. 
However the nerve centre of this coun- 
try s romany population is to be Hanover. 

(HannoverachePro&se, 20 January 1970) 


10 February 1970 -No. 4 ft. 


No. 409 - 10 February 1970 


THE GERMAN TRIBUNE 


IS 


_■ SPORT 




NEWS IN BRIEt 


Meal deal 


Tempers run hot on 
the ice rink 



ice 


T he customer at the window seal 
an hors d’oeuvre, soup, n filet 
and salad. He calls the waitress, 
fivc-Mark note on the tabic, takes 
and coat and leaves. 

The waitress pulls a face but noj 

stops tho man whose four courses ikl" ce hockey in this country is well on 
were worth a good five Marks. JL the way to ruining its already dubious 
The thrifty customer was eatinr.ttputation. Earthy Bavarian oaths are 
“Bootshaus Florslicim” and was ^exchanged and an atmosphere of violence 

to pay what he considered the rak/eof|P revails * . P . . 

meal. A sport is out of joint. Violence has 

Needless to say Berliner Giinter foliated, teamwork has developed into 
would soon have to close his resiaimd J 110 ® w ( ? r f? re L ( J he law of tbe jungle s in 
all his customers acted tills way. f ° rce > appear to be above board. 

But the balance sheet for the ft* USE to the" Middle 

- ani J ar y Sl )88 cst s that Boell who o> There is no need to dramatise, none 
nme other eating places had a good iii t0 gloss matters over either. Incidents 
UI ®° urse th erc ore customers who ft have occured that make the anxiety es- 
good meal and only pay a cou^ presse d by Jozef Capla of Czechoslovakia 
Marks but most are prepared to payu an( j Augsburg seem warranted A brief 
tor their food than it actually costs, selection of injuries and fouls this season 
If the present success continues l& speaks for itself, 
intends to convert sonic of iiis oth jbzef Capla sustained a painful con- 
houses to the new system. But then- tusion of the meniscus. His fellow-Augs- 
another side to the picture. If, wheal burger Kink had to retire from the 
comes to do tho accounts, Boell fm encounter with DUsseldorf after the first 
that ho has made a loss then the mil third because of pain and goalkeeper 
in the boathouse on the banks of iMerkie played on despite a ruptured groin; 
Rhine will liavo a column of prices adi FUssen’s ace goal-scorer Kuhn had to be 
to it, Boell does not want to finance taken to hospital in Bad Nauheim with a 
himself. flesh wound. In the fixture between 

(Frankfurter kumischuu, 2 i January]* Augsburg and Landshut Hejtmanek of 

Landshut, another Czech professional, 
clubbed Waitl, a German international, in 
the face with his stick three minutes 
before the end of the game. 

. Riedmeier of Bad Ttilz fouled Weide of 

A ’sdrfos of strange circifimtancck Krefeld so badly that he was - gravely 
a unique legal event in Breiwfld concussed. Glaser of Landshut trod on 
court there sentenced a former pot Werdermann of DUsseldorfs neck with Ills 
official to ten months imprisonment n skate. He was banned for three months 
ordered him to be taken to an instilulk but appealed and was put on probation 
for curing alcoholics - but the man n ™stcad by senior referee Zeller, also of 
already dend. Landshut. The worst incidents happen 

M- i„ .l- | |n Landshut. "It’s absolute murder play- 

jjr-s-w-ss'i'tK sstts sras 

' between championsliip prospects Lands- 

i J u was c,n P t .y s ‘ nco ,hc ® nut and Ricssersee on 23 December. The 
had been given permission to rentf fuse had been set in Garmlsch on 18 
outside the court during the last i M October. Golanka, Slovak star in Rics- 
thc trial, The court supposed that 6 sersee, announced before the game: “If I 
accused, on trial for fraud, was asi^ get my hands on Hejtmanek I’ll knock his 
dnnklng at a local pub, block off.” Czech' Hejtmanek countered: 

On the first day of the procetfo? 
prosecuting council had to go andWj 
the man from a bar. Defence cw« 
asked for lenciency, not knowing tltfB 
client was already buried. 

Members of the family had # 
thought to Inform the court or * 
prosecuting council of his death. 

In these circumstances it was a? 
possible for the trial to be closed,^ 
now the judge will take no further aefa 
He Is .hoping, however, that the $ 


Dead sentence 


“It’s going to be a gory Cliristmas in 
Landshut.” 

The atmosphere was poisoned, emotions 
has reached fever pitch. Only a 
pretext was needed. In the final stages of 
the game Hejtmanek fouled Golanka as 
forecast. The doctors diagnosed a smashed 
shoulder joint and tom cartilages. 

An operation proved necessary. Go- 
lanka spent eight days in hospital and will 
be on the sick list until March. 

After this escapade Alois Schloder of 
Landshut strolled over to the visitors' 
bench to “wish the bastards a Merry 
Christmas.” Riessersee's coach, Hans 
Rumpf, was so outraged that he called 
Hejtmanek a “Czech thug," which cost 
him a 200-Mark fine. “Got him at last,” 
Hejtmanek proudly noted afterwards, 
meaning of course Golanka. 

Riessersee have filed civil proceedings 
against Hejtmanek for deliberate bodily 
harm but the ice hockey association have 
refused to allow the club to go to court. 
“We refused for reasons of principle,” 
says Walter Hussmann, general secretary 
of the association. “We have rules and 
regulations by which to abide and when 
all is said and done the association has 
bodies set up specially to deal with cases 
like this.” 

Riessersee know just what they want. 
GoLonka is a favourite with the specta- 
tors, their best player, an attraction. 
Three to five hundred people more come 
to every fixture on his account. His injury 
will, they reckon, cost the club 20,000 
Marks in gate-money. 

Negotiations in Landshut are no longer 
necessary, however. Mediation moves ini- 
tiated by Ferdinand Baumer, chairman of 
the Bavarian association, have met with 
success. Prior to the match at Bad Tblz 
between Bad Tfllz and Landshut board 
members of both clubs reached agree- 
ment. 

Deputy chairman Fabrlcius of Riesser- 
sce, Golonka’s employer, made Landshut 
an offer that was accepted. Riesscrsecand 
Landshut arc to play a friendly in Gar- 
miscli, Riessersee is to forgo financial 
claims and Hejtmanek is not to be picked 
Tor the final. 

Rumour has it that Hejtmanek and 
trainer Gut of Landshut have been recall- 
ed by the Czech association for spoiling 


Hockey on a par with India 


u 


more proof were needed that the 
striking successes 1 of this country’s 
touring hockey team in India are more 
than coincidence, the 1-1 against India on 
the final day of the tour provides it. 

It was a repetition of the game drawn 


man’s family will ask foi the proceed ^dla j" Bombay and underlined 

to be resumed. Then the court wouM* tWs .country’s success against what 
empowered to quash the charge. 

(STUTTOARTKR ZTITUNCi, 1 5 Januarj I* 1 


virtualjy amounted toworldchampionship 
tanking opponents. Only Pakistan was 
missing. 

How did the touring side manage it? 


Without much hue and cry, without 
training centres, generous expenses and 
the acclaim of the general public they 
play their , regular fixtures :on a Sunday 
morning and still keep up with the 
world's best. 

One is tempted to give them all ice 
skates the moment they get back and enter 
them for the world ice hockey champion- 
ships. More’s the pity that this is mere 
wishful thinking! 

(Frankfurter Rundschau, 21 January 1 19 70) 


Old friend 

H ans-Jochcn Vogel, the mayor ofl* 
nich, has, with the help of a A* 
maker, used the same briefcase for 11 
past thirty years. 

Herr Vogel has had the briefcase & 
mg the whole course of his career, fr 3 
High shool, as a coucillor until he bec^ 
mayor or Munich. 

The mayor estimates that he has t* 
rled something like ten tons of papc fU 
the briefcase In the course of the years- 

(Kleler Nnchrichten, 15 January 


y .= ! < 

»£■&*: a. 





A punch up on tha Ice 


(Photo: HontmUller) 


the reputation of Czech Ice hockey abroad. ■ 
Chairman . Gabriel of . Landshut 
travelled to Prague. “It will hardly have 
been a joy ride, Fabrlcius comented. 

“It really is a pity,” Jozef Capla notes, 
“that a team that play as well as Lands- 
hut can play so extremely roughly — 
dirtily, we would say in Czechoslovakia.” 

Capla adds a number of reasons for the 


roughness. “There are too few good 
players in the Federal league. Sdrfiecannot 
skate, others cannot brake. On many 
occasions they make fools of themselves 
in front of the public. Roughness Is 
designed to compensate for their in- 
feriority as players. I beat the opponents 
by using niy head.” 

What is to be done? “The association,” 
Fabrlcius says, “ought to take more 
rigorous, energetic measures. Draconian 
fines may not be a panacea but they 
could prove a deterrent. At the end of Hie 
season there ought also to be a fairness 
cup awarded to the team with the fewest 
penalties awarded against it along with, 
say, 10,000 Marks priz^ money. 

‘The laws must be Interpreted more 
strictly. One cause of accidents is without 
a doubt that bodychecking is allowed all ‘ 
over the rink. Players who have committed 
two serious fouls should be banned for the 
remainder of the season.” 

Ice hockey Is show business, enter- 
tainment. Where else would the 8,000 : 
crowds in Augsburg'and the 6,000 crowds 
in Landshut go if there Were no ice 
hockey, Capla asks., 

Old hatreds come back to life. Matches 
become contest between Upper and. 
Lower Bavaria; Bavaria and Prussia’ The 
crowds egg players on, feelings of aggres- 
sion well up and are transferred from the 
terraces to the pitch. 

Force provoke^ force. Extreme con- 
centration 1 followed , by short breaks 


breeds stress. In no other sporting disci- 
pline is energy set loose so abruptly, in 
none is the game so marked by the 
mental outlook. An easy-going athlete 
can hardly be visualised as a successful ice 
liocky player. 

Pluegniatic types become choleric on 
ice. In man-to-man combat the feeling of 
being fairly well padded is Important. 

Peter Bauer, conch of the Canadian 
Olympic team, indulged, in-u little -be— 
haviour research once when asked how 
tough his team was. “When they take off 
their padding and put down their sticks 
you have no idea how soft they arc”, ho 
wryly noted. Thomas Mayerie 

(HI KWKLT, 72 January 1970) 


Czech ice hockey 
stars recalled 

I ce hockey in this country has been 
dealt a surprise, blow by Prague. At the 
end of the present season 22 Czech ; 
players and trainers are to be refused 
penVtission to renew their contracts here. 

‘ The clubs affected have in many cases 
been thunderstruck. Bm$t Gabriel, chair- : 
man of Landshut Ice Hockey Association, 
npted that Josef Golonka of Riessersee, . 
for Instance, would probably be unable to 
fulfil the terms of his three-year contract 
with the Bavarian club, 
i Well-known Czech stars who are due to 
return home; at the end of the current 
season include trainers Horsky and Potsch 
of Sissbldorf, 1 Svojse bf Bad Nauheim, 
trainers Vystejn and Karas of Krefeld, ; 
Gut and Hejtmanek of Landshut, Olejnik 
and Berkits of Bad Ttilz, Douzek of . 
Ftlssen and Capla of Augsburg. 

(Frankfurter Neue Presse, 22 January 1970) 


i Aden 

: Afghanistan 1 
l Algoiia 
. Angola 
. Argentina 
; Australia 
> Austria 
Belgium 
Bolivia 
-■ Brasil 
Bulgaria 
Burma 

• Burundi 

< Cambodia 
. Camaroun 
: Canada 

• Ceylon 
Chile 


SA 8 0.05 
Af 10— 
DA 0.60 
. Escl — 
S m o 45,— 
10 C. 
8 3— 

- bfr8— 
8 b 1.50 
N. Cr. 8 0.35 
Lev 0.05 
K 0.80 
P. Bu. 10— 
R 4.40 
F.C.F.A. 30- 
Con. 8 -.20 
cR —.60 
Ebc. 0.60 


Colombia col. 8 I — 

Coogo (Brazzaville!) 

F.C.F.A. 30— 
Congo IKlnshaia) 

Makuta 7— 
Casta Rica C 0.85 

Cuba P 0.13 

Cyprus II d 

Czechoslovakia Kcs 0.50 

Dahomey F.C.F.A. 30— 


Denmark 
Dora. Rep. 
Ecuador 
El Salvador 
Ethiopia 
FIJI 

Finland 


. dkrO.90 
RD 8 0 15 ' 
S 2.50 
C 0.30 
Etta. 8 0.30 
II d 
fmk 0.50 


Purmoaa 

NT 8 5— 

Indonesia 

France 

FF 0.60 

Iran 

Gabon F.C.F.A. 30— : 

Iraq 

Gambia 

11 d 

Ireland 

Germany 

DM 1 — 

Israel 

Ghana 

cedi 0.12 

Italy 

Great Britain 

II d 

Ivory Coast 

Greece 

Dr 4 - 

Jamaica 

Guatemala 

a o.i5 

Japan 

Guayana 

BWI 8 0.30 

Jordan 

Guinea 

p.a. so— 

Kenya 

Haiti 

□ 0.65 

Kuwait . 

Honduros |Br.| 

8 BH 0.20 

Laos 

Honduras 

L 0.25 

Lebanon 

Honq Kong 

HK 8 0.70 

Liberia 

Hungary 

Ft. 1— 

Libya 

Iceland 

Kr 5— 

Luxembourg 

India 

RsO.BO 

Madagascar 


Ip. 16— 

Malawi 

II d 

kl to— 

Malaysia 

M. 8 0.40 

50 Ills 

Malt 

FM 80— 

lid 

Mexico 

8 150 

1 £ 0.40 

Morocco 

DM —.05 

Llr. 80 

Mozambique 

Bsc. 1— 

A. SO.- 

Nepal 

Mohur 1— 

II d 

Nelher lands 

Hil 0.50 

. Yen 50 
50 fils 

• Netherlands Antilles 

H. ft nt 0.25 


EAs 0.25 
50 Ills 
Kip 60— 
P 40.— 
Lib S 0.15 
50 Mills 

in 6 

PM 30 — 


New Zealand 

Nicaragua 

Niger 

Nigeria 

Norway 

Pakistan 

Panama 


Be. . 
C 0.85 
F.C-P.A- SO- 
ll d 
nki 0.90 
Rs 0.60 
B . 0.15 


Pamguay 

Peru 

Philippines 
Poland 
Portugal 
Rhodesia 
Ruanda - 
Rumania 
Saudi Arabia 
Sweden 
Switzerland 
Senegal 
Sierra Leone 
Samel la 
South Alrlca 
South Korea 
S Viet Nam 
Spain 


G. IS— 
S. 3.80 
P. ptail 0.60 
ZJ. 0.50 
. Esc. 1— 
II d 
F. Rw 13- 
Leu 0 30 
RL 0.60 
ski 0.60 
FS 0.50 
F.C.F.A. 30— 
LeO.lO 
Sh So 0.80 
Rand 0.10 
Woo 35— 
V.N. 8 15— 
Ft* B— 


Sudan PT 5— 

Syria £ S 0.50 

Tanzania EAs 0.35 

Thailand B3— 

Trinidad and Tobago 

BWI 8 0.30 


Togo 

Turkoy 

Tunisia 

Uganda 

UAR 

Uruguay 

USA 

USSR 

Venezuela 

Yugoslavia 

Zambia 


F.C.F.A. 30— 
T£ 1.35 
65 M 
EAs 0.25 
PT S— 
P 30— 
8 0.30 
RblOlO 
B 9.61 
Din. I— 
II d